Vertiv's SmartIT packages power and liquid cooling with AI rack infrastructure

The factory-validated platform aims to reduce on-site integration across existing facilities and new data centres.

Vertiv introduced its SmartIT infrastructure platform on October 26, combining rack systems, power conversion and distribution, liquid cooling and monitoring in a pre-engineered package. The company says the design is validated at the factory before being connected to a site's power and cooling infrastructure.

The platform is based on NVIDIA MGX and Open Compute Project ORV3 architectures and is intended for enterprise, research, colocation and hyperscale settings. Vertiv presents it as a common architecture that can start with one rack and expand to larger deployments, including in existing facilities.

That approach responds to an integration problem created by higher-density computing. The rack, electrical supply, coolant system and monitoring cannot be sized as independent purchases and assumed to work together afterward. Heat removal and power delivery are part of the operating design of the computing installation.

Factory validation moves some coordination away from the customer's site. It can make the delivered configuration more predictable, although site connections and commissioning still have to be completed. An existing commercial building also has its own capacity limits, so a packaged rack does not remove the need to establish what the facility can support.

The launch places deployment consistency at the centre of the product proposition. For operators expanding in phases, retaining a common architecture could simplify how later racks connect to earlier ones. The practical benefit will depend on the selected compute configuration and the facility around it, rather than on the rack hardware alone.

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