Schneider Electric and NVIDIA are co-developing AI-ready power, cooling, and control systems to accelerate sustainable data center infrastructure.

• Partnership supports the EU Commission’s “AI Continent Action Plan” and €200B “InvestAI” initiative
• Collaboration emphasizes sustainability, grid coordination, and decarbonization of digital and physical AI infrastructure
• New NVIDIA-enabled EcoStruxure™ rack and pod solutions enable rapid, energy-efficient deployment of AI factories

Schneider Electric, a global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has announced a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA to advance sustainable, AI-ready infrastructure in support of Europe’s ambitious AI goals. The partnership, revealed during NVIDIA’s GTC Paris event, brings together two global leaders in sustainability and accelerated computing to co-develop next-generation power, liquid cooling, building management, and control systems for AI data centers.

“Schneider Electric and NVIDIA are not just partners — our teams are driving advanced R&D, co-developing the infrastructure needed to power the next wave of AI factories globally,” said Olivier Blum, CEO of Schneider Electric. “Together, we’ve seen tremendous success in deploying next-generation power and liquid cooling solutions, purpose-built for AI data centers. This strategic partnership — bringing together the world leaders in sustainability and accelerated computing — allows us to further accelerate this momentum, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for the AI workloads of tomorrow.”

The collaboration aligns with the European Commission’s “AI Continent Action Plan”, which calls for the establishment of at least 13 AI factories and five AI gigafactories across Europe, and with the EU’s €200 billion “InvestAI” initiative.

“AI is the defining technology of our time—the most transformative force reshaping our world,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Together with Schneider Electric, we are building AI factories: the essential infrastructure that brings AI to every company, industry, and society.”

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NVIDIA-Enabled Infrastructure for the AI Energy Transition

As part of this collaboration, Schneider Electric has launched new NVIDIA-enabled solutions under its EcoStruxure™ architecture. These include:

• A prefabricated modular pod-based data center model to speed up global AI data center deployment
• A new Open Compute Project (OCP)-inspired rack system developed for the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform, based on NVIDIA’s MGX modular architecture

These advancements mark Schneider Electric’s integration into the NVIDIA HGX and MGX ecosystems, underscoring its role in developing scalable, energy-efficient digital infrastructure.

The companies have also co-developed a series of full electrical and liquid cooling-based reference designs, with Schneider Electric now an approved CDU vendor for NVIDIA. These include technologies from Motivair’s liquid cooling portfolio, following Schneider’s acquisition of the company in March 2025.

This partnership builds on earlier milestones, including the launch of the world’s first digital twin for electrical and large-scale power systems in AI factories, developed by Schneider Electric and ETAP using the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint.

Leveraging Schneider Electric’s expertise in grid coordination, sustainability, and decarbonization, the partnership aims to fast-track product rollouts and new reference designs, building the AI factories of the future with energy responsibility at the core.

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