Vertiv has co-developed a 7MW reference architecture of the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform, enabling customers to transform traditional data centre architectures into AI factories capable of powering AI applications across the enterprise.

As enterprises embrace AI, Vertiv is reshaping the future of critical power and cooling to support accelerated computing, with the most complete portfolio of critical digital infrastructure that enables AI-ready infrastructure capable of managing the unique requirements of AI and other accelerated compute applications.

“We are proud to deepen our collaboration with NVIDIA to enable AI-driven data centres of today and tomorrow. As a leader in critical power and cooling infrastructure, Vertiv is uniquely positioned to support the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform,” Vertiv chief executive Giordano Albertazzi says.

The reference architecture will accelerate the deployment of the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 liquid-cooled rack-scale platform and support up to 132kW per rack. The architecture takes an end-to-end approach to infrastructure design to optimise deployment speed, performance, resiliency, cost, energy efficiency and scalability for current- and future-generation data centres.

The reference architecture simplifies and accelerates deployment of AI workloads in new and existing data centres while reducing risk and enabling standardisation across sites and its complete critical power infrastructure is designed to significantly reduce stranded power by aligning AI clusters to data centre capacity blocks.

The hybrid liquid and air-cooling infrastructure leverages the interdependent impact of the two approaches to efficiently manage high-density heat removal. In addition, the design includes guidance for optional Open Compute Project-inspired systems, such as DC power shelves.

The reference architecture is part of the Vertiv 360AI portfolio of reference designs for retrofit and greenfield data centres.