Simulation-ready power and cooling infrastructure models, designed to
accelerate deployment and reduce execution risk
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March, 2026 – Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global leader in
critical digital infrastructure, today announced its role in advancing
converged physical infrastructure designs for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX
AI factory reference design [1] and the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint
[2].
As AI factories scale in density, complexity, and power demand,
operators are under pressure to compress time to deployment, improve
infrastructure utilisation, and reduce integration risk. A new
infrastructure design approach that reduces complexity, improves
confidence before buildout, and accelerates time to capacity is now
available to meet these evolving needs. Through its work with NVIDIA,
Vertiv is contributing simulation-ready, or DSX SimReady digital power
and cooling assets, validated interfaces, and repeatable infrastructure
building blocks designed to help customers deploy AI factories faster
and with greater operational assurance.
This work reflects an expansion of Vertiv’s established approach to
converged physical infrastructure—a system-level model that integrates
power, cooling, controls, and services into interdependent designs
optimised across the full power train and thermal chain. This approach
is enabled through five foundational elements: repeatable building
blocks, defined interfaces, system orchestration, digital continuity,
and lifecycle support. Together, these elements support more scalable AI
factory execution by helping reduce design complexity, strengthen
coordination across infrastructure domains, and improve confidence from
initial design through deployment and operation.
At the core of this approach is a scalable building block architecture
designed around the standardised 12.5MW infrastructure blocks of
Vertiv™ OneCore [3] integrated modular solutions that can be combined,
configured, and extended to support deployments ranging from smaller AI
clusters to gigawatt-scale AI factories. By establishing repeatable
block-level designs with validated interfaces, Vertiv aims to simplify
scaling while improving deployment consistency, system coordination, and
operational performance.
“AI factories are forcing a fundamental change in how digital
infrastructure is designed, validated, and deployed,” said Scott Armul,
chief product and technology officer at Vertiv. “Vertiv’s role is to
help turn complex AI infrastructure from a collection of separate
products into converged, simulation-ready physical systems. Working with
NVIDIA, we are helping customers move faster from design to deployment.
By combining our power and cooling portfolio with validated interfaces
and digital models, we can help customers accelerate development,
improve operational confidence, and unlock better output per watt.”
Vertiv’s collaboration supports the development of digitally validated
AI factory infrastructure using real-time simulation and system-level
modelling before physical deployment begins. This approach is designed
to help customers:
· reduce deployment complexity and field integration risk,
· accelerate time to operational readiness,
· improve infrastructure coordination across power, cooling, and
controls,
· and optimise performance from grid connection through
chip-level thermal management and heat-reuse pathways.
Vertiv’s contribution is grounded in its ability to bring together one
of the industry’s most complete portfolios of critical power, thermal
management, integrated controls, and lifecycle services into a cohesive
converged physical infrastructure. Unlike conventional modular or
prefabricated approaches that primarily compress schedule, converged
physical infrastructure is intended to deliver both deployment speed and
compounding system-level gains. By standardising interfaces and creating
repeatable building blocks, Vertiv aims to support more scalable AI
factory execution while enabling improved performance, efficiency, and
reliability.
“As AI factories scale to unprecedented levels of power and density,
enterprises require a converged approach to physical infrastructure that
unifies power, cooling, and digital twin simulation to reduce deployment
risk,” said Vladimir Troy, vice president of AI Infrastructure at
NVIDIA. “By integrating simulation-ready infrastructure models into
the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX design, Vertiv is providing the repeatable
building blocks and validated interfaces necessary to accelerate the
path from design to operational readiness.”
This collaborative output, Vertiv™ OneCore Rubin DSX, is a design
outcome grounded in converged physical infrastructure that Vertiv will
continue to iterate for multiple compute generations ahead. It is
intended to support AI factory builders with parameterised
infrastructure models and deployment-ready building blocks that span
power, cooling, controls, and lifecycle services.
Vertiv expects this work to inform future converged infrastructure
offerings across hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, and emerging AI
deployment environments.
For more information on Vertiv solutions for AI infrastructure, visit
Vertiv.com [4].
About Vertiv
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and
ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run
continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs.
Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data
centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities
with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and
services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network.
Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv does business in more
than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and
content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com [5].
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