Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global provider of critical digital infrastructure, today confirmed its strategic alignment with NVIDIA’s AI roadmap. NVIDIA plans to deploy 800 VDC power architectures for the next generation of AI-centric and high-density data centers. Vertiv’s 800 VDC power portfolio will launch in the second half of 2026, supporting future-ready designs and energy-efficient infrastructure.

This release comes ahead of NVIDIA Kyber and Rubin Ultra platform rollouts, allowing early adoption of optimized power solutions. Vertiv follows the NVIDIA AI roadmap to stay one GPU generation ahead and meet rapid growth in computing demand. This strategy allows customers to deploy power and cooling systems in sync with NVIDIA’s advanced compute platforms. Furthermore, vertiv offers end-to-end power, cooling, integrated infrastructure, and services that fully support modern AI factories and hyperscale data centers.

As AI rack power requirements exceed 300 kilowatts, 800 VDC enables more efficient and centralized high-power delivery. This architecture reduces copper usage, lowers current, and minimizes thermal losses in dense AI environments. Vertiv’s 800 VDC portfolio includes centralized rectifiers, high-efficiency DC busways, rack-level DC-DC converters, and DC-compatible backup systems. Furthermore, this expansion builds on Vertiv’s existing AC power train, offering a complete and flexible power management ecosystem. The company continues developing scalable solutions to support high-performance computing workloads and the evolving AI data center landscape.

Vertiv Leverages Decades of DC Power Expertise to Support AI Growth

“As GPUs evolve to support increasingly complex AI applications at giga-watt scale, power and cooling providers need to be equally innovative to provide energy-efficient and high-density solutions for the AI factories. While the 800 VDC portfolio is new, DC power isn’t a new direction for us, it’s a continuation of what we’ve already done at scale,” said Scott Armul, executive vice president of global portfolio and business units at Vertiv. “We’ve spent decades deploying higher-voltage DC architectures across global telecom, industrial, and data center applications. We’re entering this transition from a position of strength and bringing real-world experience to meet the demands of the AI factory.”

Vertiv’s experience in DC power spans more than two decades of ±400 VDC deployments, broadened by strategic acquisitions during the early 2000’s. These solutions support critical loads in global telecom networks, integrated microgrids, and mission-critical facilities. Moreover, this foundation establishes Vertiv as a trusted leader in the safe design, deployment, and operation of higher-voltage DC architectures, with proven scale, portfolio, and long-term serviceability.

Designed for homogeneous AI zones in hyperscale environments, Vertiv’s 800 VDC portfolio is a key pillar of its “unit of compute” strategy — a systems-level design engineered to enable all infrastructure components — to interoperate as one modular and scalable system, matching infrastructure demands of next-generation GPUs. Vertiv’s support for both AC and DC architectures is a strategic differentiator in the evolving AI data center landscape.

For more information about Vertiv’s DC power solutions and end-to-end power and cooling solutions, visit www.vertiv.com.