Schneider Electric has announced key advancements in designing, simulating, building, operating and maintaining the next generation of AI data center infrastructure during NVIDIA GTC in San Jose.
They include a new NVIDIA Vera Rubin reference design that validates power and cooling for the latest NVIDIA rack-scale architectures, integration of advanced digital twin capabilities within the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint and ecosystem, and early testing of agentic AI for data center alarm management services using NVIDIA Nemotron open models.
The company’s announcements further strengthen Schneider Electric and NVIDIA’s existing collaboration and establish a comprehensive foundation for developing AI Factories built for gigawatt-scale and efficiency.
Vera Rubin Reference Design
The newly unveiled AI reference design is one of the first created for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 racks. The validated reference design covers power and cooling and is integrated with Schneider Electric’s controls reference designs.
Additionally, AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software owned by Schneider Electric, together with NVIDIA, has announced a new lifecycle digital twin architecture that maximizes GPU efficiency and accelerates the deployment of AI factories at speed and scale. Schneider Electric is committed to creating SimReady assets and digital twins through NVIDIA Omniverse, supported by AVEVA’s advanced software.
Complexity
“As AI workloads scale in both size and complexity, the margin for error in data centre design becomes incredibly small,” stated Manish Kumar, Executive Vice President, Secure Power & Data Centres, Schneider Electric.
“Gigawatt-scale AI factories demand a fundamentally new class of energy-efficient and highly predictable infrastructure,” commented Vladimir Troy, Vice President, AI infrastructure, NVIDIA. “Together, NVIDIA and Schneider Electric are providing the power, cooling, and digital twin architectures needed to accelerate time-to-token for our customers worldwide,” he concluded.
