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Consider Virginia, where Dominion serves nearly three million households and is anchoring massive data centers, with dozens of gigawatts of data center demand in one county alone.—Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 18 May 2026 Expect that premium to show up in capex pricing, in offtake terms, and eventually in where the next gigawatt of training compute gets built.—Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026 Ryan Harris, chief revenue officer of Span, said the company estimates XFRA will be able to generate about one to two megawatts worth of compute later this year, scaling across the country to an annual capacity of more than 1 gigawatt beginning next year.—Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 15 May 2026 It’s been forecasted that electricity demand in California will grow to 160 gigawatts by 2045.—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for gigawatt