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capacity

[kuh-pas-i-tee] / kəˈpæs ɪ ti /




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Meta Platforms fell 1.9% after the company said its massive AI data center in Louisiana had nearly doubled in projected cost to more than $50 billion, supersizing the project to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

This level of investment is expected to quadruple the amount of total available hyperscale compute capacity to 120 gigawatts by 2028, Morgan Stanley predicts.

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

There has long been speculation that Graham’s capacity for compartmentalizing also extended to his personal life.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

Italy is second to Spain in the EU for desalination capacity, accounting for around 7.6 percent of daily EU production, according to data from the think tank The European House -- Ambrosetti.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

They came with dozens of badly wounded soldiers, and once again the medical clinic was over capacity.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

This tournament features more matches than ever before, and North American stadiums have enormous capacities to accommodate even more fans, naturally upping the consumption of this World Cup.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2026

But the prospect of a job interview seems so far beyond his capacities he wonders if he’ll end up living on the street.

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

That geopolitical imperative is extending to work toward the potential for autonomous AI systems that can surpass human capacities and intelligence, sometimes called superintelligence, artificial general intelligence or AGI.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

Gabbard also said US intelligence had concluded that Iran was not rebuilding nuclear enrichment capacities destroyed last year by the United States and Israel -- also used as a major justification for the war.

From Barron's May 22, 2026

But he is well aware that describing clouds is at the limit of his linguistic capacities.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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