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Data centers alone are projected to require 127,000 megawatts (MW) of power by 2029, up from 82,000 this year.
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Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Researchers found that training a model like Open AI’s GPT-3, for example, requires 1,287 megawatt hours of electricity, which is enough to power about 120 homes in the United States for a year.
—Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 3 July 2025
The major projects coming to the Louisville area will demand hundreds of megawatts — enough to power hundreds of thousands of homes.
—Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Meta’s contracts for clean power from Invenergy now total 1,800 megawatts.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 26 June 2025
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Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Researchers found that training a model like Open AI’s GPT-3, for example, requires 1,287 megawatt hours of electricity, which is enough to power about 120 homes in the United States for a year.
—Ashton Jackson, CNBC, 3 July 2025
The major projects coming to the Louisville area will demand hundreds of megawatts — enough to power hundreds of thousands of homes.
—Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Meta’s contracts for clean power from Invenergy now total 1,800 megawatts.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 26 June 2025
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“Megawatt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/megawatt. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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megawatt
noun
mega·watt
ˈmeg-ə-ˌwät 
: one million watts
—abbreviation MW
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