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.
Watch how rising AI rack density makes the physics case for 800 VDC power delivery
Scott Armul, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Vertiv, explains the physics driving the transition toward 800 VDC and why the next generation of AI systems requires a new approach to rack-level power delivery.
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.
Artificial intelligence
Vertiv Cooling Innovation Day 2026: End-to-end system design for high-density AI
Discover how integrating power, cooling, and controls across the full thermal chain keeps high-density AI data centers stable as rack densities climb.
Building the physical infrastructure foundation for NVIDIA MGX-based AI factories
Discover how Vertiv’s converged infrastructure supports NVIDIA MGX-based AI factories with modular power, cooling, and lifecycle services for scalable deployments.
Transforming colocation for AI: Optimization strategies for AI-ready infrastructure
AI-ready data center guide for colocation providers: Transform your facility with proven strategies for 100kW+ rack densities, hybrid cooling, and scalable power systems with practical implementation insights and real-world case studies.
Extreme densification
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.
From 6 to 150 kW: How data centers are cooling the AI rack density surge
Ben Smith, VP for Global Thermal Direct Expansion Systems at Vertiv, explains how rack densification is reshaping cooling strategy — from direct-to-chip liquid cooling to hybrid and modular deployments.
The data center year ahead: From extreme densification to full stack thinking
The speed of change in the data center industry continues to accelerate. The year ahead will be no exception with innovations across power, cooling as well as the full AI stack.
Energy autonomy
Beyond backup: Understanding the complementary roles of UPS and BESS
Learn why AI-era data centers need both technologies working together — and how a layered power architecture delivers resilience.
Energy autonomy accelerates: Bring Your Own Power and Cooling
Vertiv™ Frontiers: Bring Your Own Power and Cooling is being more widely adopted by AI data center operators
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.
The road to agentic AI: Enabling the next era of AI-driven innovation
The future of AI isn’t just creating – it's about doing. Today’s generative AI (genAI) excels at recognizing and replicating patterns in data.
Vertiv Technology Fair: Sparking AI innovation through collaboration
Ideas collide, prototypes evolve, and engineers learn faster than any algorithm. How does the Vertiv Technology Fair turn collaboration into AI breakthroughs?
The future of data centers begins in university labs
Think about how engineers design systems for space. They build for extreme heat, radiation, and high velocity: conditions they can’t fully simulate on Earth.
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: Building adaptive protections for unprecedented loads
Vertiv responds to evolving industry demands based on two principles: designing safeguards that scale with technological density and treating safety as a continuous process.
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.
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.
The circulatory system of the AI factory: Why “flush and fill” is no longer enough
AI data centers demand precision liquid cooling commissioning. Learn why engineered flushing and hydraulic balance management protect compute uptime.
Vertiv™ AI Load Simulator: Innovation for precise power validation
Discover the Vertiv™ AI Load Simulator, a patented innovation that accurately replicates AI workload power patterns to validate data center infrastructure performance and reliability.
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.
Thermal chain evolution
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.
Adaptive, resilient liquid cooling: How intelligence is upgrading the thermal chain
Intelligent controls are transforming liquid cooling in AI data centers, enabling adaptive performance, efficient heat rejection, and scalable, resilient thermal management.
Beyond the compressor-less hype: Matching data center cooling technology to climate reality
Despite elevated cooling temperatures, learn which cooling technologies and innovations work best based on geography, climate, external ambient conditions, water availability, and thermal differentials before making million-dollar infrastructure decisions.
Digital-first design
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.
Watch how simulation-ready converged infrastructure enables faster AI factory deployments
Simulation-ready, converged physical infrastructure is transforming how AI factories are designed, deployed, and scaled.
Compass Datacenters and Vertiv industrialize the overhead layer for AI scale
Compass Datacenters partnered with Vertiv engineers to deploy Vertiv™ SmartRun,an overhead prefabricated infrastructure system designed to industrialize the data center whitespace. By shifting assembly, integration, and testing into the factory, Vertiv SmartRun arrives on-site ready to install.
Power architecture transformation
Smarter resilience: Advanced maintenance and battery technologies powering next-gen data centers
Discover Vertiv™ EnergyCore Lithium cabinets, featuring its intelligent, condition-based battery health management and advanced Lithium-ion technology, and how it transforms data center power backup and power smoothing to offer superior efficiency and intelligent monitoring capabilities.
The Vertiv view: Intelligent infrastructure’s Henry Ford moment
Just as mass production created industrial winners in the last century, gigawatt-scale infrastructure is driving true innovation in the AI-era.
The Vertiv view: High-voltage DC will power AI expansion
Traditional AC power distribution is reaching its physical and practical limits when it comes to the extreme density of modern AI compute.
