Frames of Reference for Electricity
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Frames of Reference for Electricity

Wattage is the rate of electricity used or produced.
Watt hour is total amount of electricity used over time.

Each step up is 1000x: Watt, Kilowatt, Megawatt, Gigawatt, Terawatt

Power
10W lightbulb
100W resting human body
1kW microwave
1kW cyclist peak power
200kW Tesla charger
100MW datacenter
250MW Colossus datacenter
2GW Hoover Dam
2GW Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant
20GW Bitcoin network
20GW Three gorges hydroelectric dam

Energy
100Wh laptop battery -- FAA's carry on limit
30kWh gallon of gasoline
100kWh Tesla car battery
1MWh American home per month
1GWh GPT-3 training
4TWh Hoover Dam production per year
100TWh Three gorges production per year