NVIDIA has introduced NVIDIA DSX Ready, a qualification program for partner products that meet the applicable requirements of its NVIDIA DSX AI factory reference designs. NVIDIA’s framing is that power, cooling, water, site, and grid constraints now shape what AI factory builders can deploy, and the program’s job is to connect a reference design to specific qualified products so builders can pick hardware that fits the whole factory with less integration risk.
Reference Design Alignment Across Power and Liquid Cooling #
The NVIDIA DSX platform unifies AI factory design and operations across compute, networking, power, cooling, facilities, and software, and NVIDIA’s argument for qualifying the physical layer is that optimizing one part of an AI factory can shift the bottleneck elsewhere. The qualification path differs by category. BESS providers run the required qualification tests and submit supporting data for NVIDIA review and approval within a defined qualification boundary. CDU providers use a self-qualification suite to determine whether a specific offering meets the applicable NVIDIA functional requirements, so the cooling side is vendor-attested rather than NVIDIA-reviewed.
Launch Partner Ecosystem and Category Expansion #
DSX Ready launches with six partners across two initial categories. Battery energy storage systems from Hitachi Energy, LG Energy Solution, and Tesla are qualified on the power side, the same part of the DSX design where NVIDIA’s 800 VDC architecture moved to production in August. On the cooling side, the qualified cooling distribution units come from LG Electronics, LiquidStack, and Vertiv. NVIDIA says additional categories across infrastructure and software will roll out over time.