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You use "Gigafactory" as if it was an established word. It isn't. It it the name of Tesla's battery factory being built in Nevada.

• mikeash 12y ago
  It's so named because its planned capacity is measured in gigawatt-hours of batteries per year. "A gigafactory" to refer to any factory of that size is a reasonable term to use.
  • eru 12y ago
    Couldn't you just measure the capacity in directly in Watts instead of Watt hours / year?
    • mikeash 12y ago
      Certainly, and you could measure battery capacity in joules, and... well, for some reason we've standardized on weird units for these things.
• DenisM 12y ago
  If we couldn't use words until they are established, no word would ever become established. Think about this - how do words become words? There isn't a government agency that makes decisions on that, it's the people who do, through common use.