Vertiv Brings Converged Physical Infrastructure to NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factories

Simulation-ready power and cooling infrastructure models designed to accelerate deployment and reduce execution risk

Mar. 17, 2026 at 1:33am

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Vertiv, a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, announced its role in advancing converged physical infrastructure designs for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI factory reference design and the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint. As AI factories scale in density, complexity, and power demand, Vertiv is contributing simulation-ready digital power and cooling assets, validated interfaces, and repeatable infrastructure building blocks to help customers deploy AI factories faster and with greater operational assurance.

Why it matters

This collaboration reflects Vertiv's established approach to converged physical infrastructure, which integrates power, cooling, controls, and services into interdependent designs optimized across the full power train and thermal chain. This approach is intended to help reduce deployment complexity, strengthen coordination across infrastructure domains, and improve confidence from initial design through deployment and operation.

The details

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. By standardizing interfaces and creating repeatable building blocks, Vertiv aims to support more scalable AI factory execution while enabling improved performance, efficiency, and reliability.

  • Vertiv announced its role in the collaboration on March 16, 2026.

The players

Vertiv

A global leader in critical digital infrastructure.

NVIDIA

A technology company that specializes in the design of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system on a chip units (SoCs) for the gaming and professional markets.

NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX

An AI factory reference design from NVIDIA.

NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint

An AI factory blueprint from NVIDIA.

Scott Armul

Chief product and technology officer at Vertiv.

Vladimir Troy

Vice president of AI Infrastructure at NVIDIA.

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What they’re saying

“AI factories are forcing a fundamental change in how digital infrastructure is designed, validated, and deployed. 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.”

— Scott Armul, Chief product and technology officer at Vertiv (Vertiv)

“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. 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.”

— Vladimir Troy, Vice president of AI Infrastructure at NVIDIA (Vertiv)

What’s next

Vertiv expects this work to inform future converged infrastructure offerings across hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, and emerging AI deployment environments.

The takeaway

This collaboration between Vertiv and NVIDIA aims to help customers deploy AI factories faster and with greater operational assurance by providing simulation-ready infrastructure models, validated interfaces, and repeatable building blocks that integrate power, cooling, controls, and lifecycle services.