Schneider Electric, a global leader in energy management and automation, has unveiled new reference designs in collaboration with NVIDIA to help operators deploy AI-ready infrastructure faster and more efficiently. These innovative frameworks streamline the deployment process, enabling organizations to adopt advanced AI solutions while optimizing power, cooling, and operational efficiency.
“Schneider Electric is streamlining the process of designing, deploying, and operating advanced AI infrastructure with its new reference designs,” said Jim Simonelli, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Schneider Electric.
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The first reference design introduces the industry’s only integrated framework for power management and liquid cooling control systems, featuring Motivair by Schneider Electric liquid cooling technologies. It supports seamless interoperability with NVIDIA Mission Control, NVIDIA’s AI factory operations and orchestration software, including cluster and workload management features. Additionally, operators can leverage this control system with Schneider Electric’s data center reference designs for NVIDIA Grace Blackwell systems, ensuring they stay ahead of accelerated computing advancements while maintaining precise control over power and cooling.
The second reference design focuses on AI factory deployments up to 142 kW per rack, specifically supporting NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 racks. Designed for the next-generation NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra architecture, this blueprint covers four critical technical areas: facility power, facility cooling, IT space, and lifecycle software. Furthermore, it is available in configurations aligned with both ANSI and IEC standards, offering flexibility for global operators.
As AI adoption grows, data center operators face challenges in deploying high-density, GPU-accelerated clusters quickly. Schneider Electric addresses this by providing validated, documented, and proven infrastructure designs. These reference designs allow operators to plan next-generation power and liquid cooling controls before new AI solutions arrive, optimizing cost, efficiency, and reliability.
“Our latest reference designs, featuring integrated power management and liquid cooling controls, are future-ready, scalable, and co-engineered with NVIDIA for real-world applications, enabling data center operators to keep pace with surging demand for AI,” added Simonelli.
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Scott Wallace, Director of Data Centre Engineering at NVIDIA, commented, “With its latest controls reference design, Schneider Electric connects critical infrastructure data with NVIDIA Mission Control, delivering a rigorously validated blueprint that enables AI factory digital twins and empowers operators to optimise advanced accelerated computing infrastructure.”
The reference designs establish a plug-and-play controls system across NVIDIA GB300 and GB200 NVL72 deployments. By bridging operational technology and IT systems through MQTT protocol, operators can now harness data at every level to optimize performance. In addition, the frameworks introduce guidance for measuring AI rack power profiles, ensure redundancy across cooling and power infrastructure, and enable precise real-time management of critical resources, providing maximum uptime and reliability for AI workloads.
With these new offerings, Schneider Electric continues its long-standing collaboration with NVIDIA, providing nine AI reference designs for prefabricated modules, retrofits, and purpose-built high-density AI infrastructure, reinforcing its commitment to resilient, energy-efficient, and cutting-edge data center architectures.
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