Designing infrastructure for enterprise AI
A decision framework for matching AI workloads to deployment models and physical infrastructure requirements.
Bring your own power: Start with the development decision, not the technology
BYOP can improve time to power, but it introduces new fuel, permitting, site, commercial, and operating constraints. A new framework helps data center developers determine when dedicated generation improves the overall development path.
BYOP for data centers: Why implementation planning determines success
BYOP makes prime power generation part of the data center operating architecture. Learn five critical implementation practices that can help preserve time to power and reduce integration, commissioning, and operational risk.
Artificial intelligence
From pilot to production: Three enterprise AI infrastructure decisions that matter
Explore three enterprise AI infrastructure decisions that matter when moving from pilot to production: workload placement, token economics, and GPU-ready operations.
AI infrastructure moves from ambition to execution: Five conversations at DCD AI Week
Vertiv leaders join NVIDIA ecosystem partners, infrastructure experts, and industry researchers across five DCD webcasts examining how operators can turn AI ambition into deployable, productive, and adaptable capacity.
DCD AI Week 2026: From planning and design to deployment reality - What operators must solve next
Discover how AI infrastructure demands system-level design, from power train to thermal chain, in the first episode of DCD AI Week 2026.
Extreme densification
Extreme densification: The defining macro force shaping data center design
Vertiv Frontiers: Extreme densification is a critical driver of modern data centers, accelerated by AI and HPC workloads, and creates additional complexity in power, cooling, and space.
Validating AI Factory design challenges with physical system-level testing
The gaps that determine whether AI factory capital produces productive compute exist at the seams between systems. This brief introduces the closed-loop validation methodology connecting simulation, physical testing, and operational learning into a continuous cycle of reduced uncertainty.
Spotlight: Bringing NVIDIA AI Computing Capability to the Naval Postgraduate School
Discover how Vertiv helped the Naval Postgraduate School deploy a high-density, liquid-cooled AI infrastructure powered by NVIDIA DGX GB300 to accelerate AI research, education, and mission-critical innovation.
Energy autonomy
Bring Your Own Power & Cooling (BYOP&C): An integrated approach to accelerate grid-to-chip deployment
AI workloads are driving rack densities into the triple digits and stretching interconnection queues beyond five years, creating stranded capacity and hidden capital costs. Traditional project‑build models can’t keep pace, leaving data centers stalled and delaying time‑to‑revenue.
Grid or on-site? The AI infrastructure decision
Grid or on-site? We explore the infrastructure decision shaping AI data center deployment — and why the five-year interconnection queue is forcing operators to choose.
Get practical insights on scaling AI-ready data centers with onsite power generation
Martin Olsen, Vice President of Segment Strategy and Deployment for Data Centers at Vertiv, highlights why on-premise power generation is becoming essential for large AI workloads and how collaborations with Caterpillar and Solar Turbines support this shift.
Blog series spotlight
Innovating Out Loud
To thrive in business, employees must work together and find a way to do new things or do existing things better and then make that process a part of the company culture.
DCD AI Week 2026: From planning and design to deployment reality - What operators must solve next
Discover how AI infrastructure demands system-level design, from power train to thermal chain, in the first episode of DCD AI Week 2026.
Full-stack infrastructure planning for high-density AI deployments
Two data center leaders discuss why treating compute, power, and cooling as a single engineered system is no longer optional as rack densities climb.
Converged physical infrastructure: Moving from components to system outcomes
Converged physical infrastructure integrates power, thermal, and controls as one system for AI-ready data centers. Learn the five non-negotiables for success.
Responsible business
At Vertiv, we strive to advance the principles of environmental stewardship, fostering a safe, inclusive and engaging workplace, and conducting our business responsibly. Our vision is to enable a more environmentally responsible future by...
Four dimensions of efficiency: A systems approach to digital infrastructure design
Learn how Vertiv's systems-based approach to data center design embeds efficiency across four key dimensions: energy, water, materials, and carbon management.
AI and safety: How Vertiv embeds protection into every layer of the work
Discover how Vertiv builds safety into every layer of its operations — from daily site huddles to global training — to protect the people powering the AI era.
World Energy Efficiency Day: The AI era’s defining challenge
Discover how integrated power, cooling, and AI-enabled monitoring elevate data center energy efficiency and support scalable, responsible growth in the AI era.
Technology blog
Discover Vertiv ideas, innovations, and what is shaping the future of digital infrastructure: from power and cooling to design, operations, and emerging technologies.
Precise battery management for AI infrastructure with accurate state of charge (SOC) and state of health (SOH)
AI load spikes don't wait. See why state of charge (SOC) and state of health (SOH) precision is the smarter path to stable, scalable AI power management.
Monitoring and management for liquid-cooled environments
Learn how centralized monitoring and management improve visibility, speeds of response, and support liquid-cooled data center operations.
Serial consoles for driving AI factories’ uptime
Learn why serial console servers can be the only reliable recovery path when hardware fails at hyperscale.
The data center thermal chain
From 20kW racks to 150kW AI clusters, understand the cooling architecture that keeps scaling.
Thermal chain evolution
What if cooling wasn’t a single product, but a complete thermal chain?
Explore how data centers are managing the increasing heat loads from high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads in this comprehensive guide to modern thermal management strategies, from liquid cooling to heat reuse.
Rethinking heat: A byproduct of useful work and a resource worth capturing
Explore why AI infrastructure is changing how operators view data center heat, from a cooling challenge to a concentrated resource worth capturing.
Navigating the AI cooling challenge: Why hybrid data centers need a smarter approach
Discover how hybrid packaged cooling solutions like the Vertiv™ CoolPhase Flex are helping data center operators navigate the shift to AI workloads — without locking into costly infrastructure decisions too early.
Digital-first design
DCD AI Week 2026: From blueprint to build - Designing smarter with reference architectures and digital twins
Explore from DCD AI Week 2026 how reference architectures and digital twins validate AI factory infrastructure before deployment for data center engineers and operators.
What digital twins reveal about AI infrastructure design
Digital twins are transforming AI data center design by enabling real-time simulation of cooling, power, and electrical systems before construction begins. Learn how Vertiv and NVIDIA Omniverse are advancing physically accurate infrastructure modeling.
Digital twins for operations: Intelligent management
Explore how digital twin technology is moving beyond design validation into real-time operational management of AI data centers — and the financial case for data center operators.
Power architecture transformation
The 800 VDC decision: A practical guide for AI power architecture
Explore when 800 VDC makes sense for AI data centers, how to phase adoption, and why architecture optionality matters.
From rack to data hall: The practical path to 800 VDC
AI rack density is pushing conventional power delivery toward physical limits. Learn how Vertiv is developing a phased 800 VDC architecture from rack-level sidecars to centralized data-hall power.
BESS and UPS roles in large data center power architectures
Learn how UPS and BTM BESS architectures differ, how they work together, and how each supports resilience, flexibility, and AI power smoothing.
