Executive Summary

• Schneider Electric work with NVIDIA and industrial software leader AVEVA to develop the new NVIDIA Vera Rubin reference design, which provides a validated roadmap for powering and cooling the latest NVIDIA rack-scale systems.
• Schneider Electric’s testing of the NVIDIA Nemotron model for agentic AI marks an important step toward the next generation of autonomous, software‑defined operations

Schneider Electric, a global energy technology leader, in collaboration with NVIDIA and industrial software leader AVEVA, has announced key advancements in designing, simulating, building, operating and maintaining the next generation of AI data centre 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 centre 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.

New NVIDIA 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. Importantly, the design addresses important infrastructure requirements and considerations for NVIDIA’s latest rack-scale systems:

• Enables new power distribution with increased supply voltage of 480 VAC
• Allows higher TCS loop supply temperature of 45°C for enhanced efficiency
• Supports new IT room architecture with clusters of AI racks sharing centralised networking, storage, CPU, and support racks. This allows every NVIDIA rack-scale system to remain physically close together while allowing separate, higher voltage for the GPU racks to enable larger clusters and optimise power delivery
• Maximises token performance by designing data centres to accommodate various operating points of GPU racks (both MaxP and MaxQ). Operating at MaxQ can achieve more tokens per watt to override any power constraints and optimise computing performance through redundancy. Overall, the reference design enables more tokens per watt when incorporating NVIDIA’s MaxQ operating point.

The reference design is validated with ETAP models for electrical system design and ITD CFD models for layout and air flow.

New AVEVA Lifecycle Digital Twin Architecture for Gigawatt-Scale AI Factories

Additionally, AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software owned by Schneider Electric, together with NVIDIA, has announced a new lifecycle digital twin architecture that maximises 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. With this announcement, AVEVA’s engineering and operations software is now embedded throughout the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint and ecosystem. It is projected to accelerate time-to-token through domain-specific simulations, digital visualization and collaborative design tools that will drive significant engineering optimisation.

After a system architecture is assembled in the NVIDIA Omniverse environment, AVEVA executes multi-domain simulations to validate operational behaviour under realistic conditions. This includes computational models for power distribution, thermal dynamics, airflow performance and controls. These simulations enable iterative design optimisation, rapid evaluation of multiple scenarios across a wide range of load and environmental conditions, and final system verification prior to building the physical environment. The result is a fully validated, performance-optimised design that reduces engineering cycles and improves deployment accuracy.

“As AI workloads scale in both size and complexity, the margin for error in data centre design becomes incredibly small,” said Manish Kumar, Executive Vice President, Secure Power & Data Centres at Schneider Electric. “Delivering AI at scale requires tightly integrated electrical, cooling and digital architectures that can support both unprecedented performance demands while maintaining peak energy efficiency. By combining advanced software, digital twins and validated reference designs, operators can simulate and optimise infrastructure before a single rack is deployed. This approach reduces risk, accelerates deployment and ensures the efficiency and resilience needed to power the next generation of AI factories.”

“Gigawatt-scale AI factories demand a fundamentally new class of energy-efficient and highly predictable infrastructure,” said Vladimir Troy, vice president of AI infrastructure at 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.”

NVIDIA Nemotron Agentic AI Model Testing for Alarm Management Services

Schneider Electric also announced during the event that it has successfully tested the NVIDIA Nemotron model to power a new agentic AI alarm management capability. This service’s advancement addresses a longstanding challenge in the data center industry: interpreting alarms at a system level to identify root causes and determine the appropriate corrective actions. Leveraging real-time streaming IoT data across multiple systems, Schneider Electric’s agentic AI autonomously analyses, diagnoses, and recommends actions using a suite of integrated tools. Working alongside expert technicians, the technology delivers faster and more consistent issue resolution, reduces unnecessary dispatches, and enhances operational resilience. This milestone reinforces Schneider Electric’s commitment to redefine asset performance management through cutting-edge AI innovation.

These latest announcements build on a legacy of innovation between Schneider Electric and NVIDIA:

• In partnership with Switch and NVIDIA, Schneider Electric has lent its expertise to Switch’s LDC EVO™ operating system. When used in tandem with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and OpenUSD, Switch’s LDC EVO platform presents the automation of every system in Switch’s data centre facilities in real-time, allowing the company to view and monitor thermal modelling, electrical simulation, reality capture, construction lifecycle management and more.
• ETAP integrated its industry-leading electrical modelling into NVIDIA Omniverse, creating a unified digital‑twin environment for rapid design and validation of complex power systems. This enables grid operators and data centre owners to scale rapidly and safely, without compromising system stability.
• In November 2025, Schneider Electric, along with ETAP and AVEVA, announced their membership to the Alliance for OpenUSD, showing dedication to aligning with NVIDIA Omniverse to shape the future of interoperable digital twins and simulation-ready (SimReady) 3D assets.
• In October 2025, Schneider Electric announced its support of the NVIDIA-led industry transition to 800 VDC power architectures, which are a critical requirement for emerging high-density rack systems being adopted across next-generation data centres.

• In September 2025, Schneider Electric announced a new reference design supporting NVIDIA Mission Control and NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, which also includes Schneider Electric’s industry-leading ETAP and EcoStruxure IT Design CFD models, allowing users to leverage digital twins to simulate specific power and cooling scenarios to optimise designs on unique applications.