End-to-end critical power and cooling reference designs for NVIDIA Blackwell architectures up to 7MW, with OCP infrastructure options. This is Part 1 of a two-part series.

End-to-end critical power and cooling reference designs. Supplied by Vertiv
Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure, today announced that it is releasing a complete 7MW reference architecture of the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform, co-developed with NVIDIA, that will enable customers to transform traditional data centre architectures into AI factories capable of powering AI applications across the enterprise.
The reference architecture will accelerate the deployment of the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 liquid-cooled rack-scale platform and supports 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.
“We are proud to deepen our collaboration with NVIDIA to enable AI-driven data centres of today and tomorrow,” said Giordano (Gio) Albertazzi, CEO of Vertiv. “As a leader in critical power and cooling infrastructure, Vertiv is uniquely positioned to support the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform. Our portfolio of high-performance power and cooling solutions, combined with our global scale, will enable customers to deploy AI data centres faster, more efficiently and with greater flexibility to address densification, dynamic workloads, retrofits and enable future-ready designs.”
“New data centres are built for accelerated computing and generative AI with architectures that are significantly more complex than those for general-purpose computing,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “With Vertiv’s world-class cooling and power technologies, NVIDIA can realise our vision to reinvent computing and build a new industry of AI factories that produce digital intelligence to benefit every company and industry.”
With Vertiv power and cooling infrastructure matched to, and closely coupled with, the NVIDIA Blackwell platform, the reference architecture simplifies and accelerates deployment of AI workloads in new and existing data centres while reducing risk and enabling standardisation across sites.