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by varenc 1189 days ago
And 100,000kWh / minute is just 6 gigawatts or 6,000,000 kilowatts. Google is great at unit math like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=100000+kWh+%2F+1+minute+in+G...

Journalist consistently use silly or incorrect units when discussing power usage. At least for this article the units aren't flat out wrong, just silly and I can see how "kilowatt-hours per minute" could be a bit more intuitive to readers.

(And don't get me started on how USB battery manufacturers advertise capacity in obtuse units like 27000 mAh @ 3.7 volts instead of just using 99.9 watt-hours or 27 amp-hours.)