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This campus holds tens of thousands of racks of machines and uses hundreds of megawatts of electricity streaming from metal-and-wire power stations installed between the concrete buildings.
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Cade Metz, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2025
Unlike traditional reactors that can produce upwards of 1,000 megawatts, proposals for SMRs estimate an output of around 300 MW, enough to power tens or even hundreds of thousands of homes.
—John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 12 Mar. 2025
All the stars comprised a megawatt line-up of performances for yesterday evening’s celebrations for Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2025
Beyoncé's 2023 show in New Orleans so far holds the record for the biggest power usage with 16 megawatts, or the equivalent of powering 10,000 homes.
—Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025
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Cade Metz, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2025
Unlike traditional reactors that can produce upwards of 1,000 megawatts, proposals for SMRs estimate an output of around 300 MW, enough to power tens or even hundreds of thousands of homes.
—John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 12 Mar. 2025
All the stars comprised a megawatt line-up of performances for yesterday evening’s celebrations for Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2025
Beyoncé's 2023 show in New Orleans so far holds the record for the biggest power usage with 16 megawatts, or the equivalent of powering 10,000 homes.
—Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025
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“Megawatt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/megawatt. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.
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megawatt
noun
mega·watt
ˈmeg-ə-ˌwät 
: one million watts
—abbreviation MW
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