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Schneider Electric, a global leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to meet the growing demand for sustainable, AI-ready infrastructure. Together, Schneider Electric and NVIDIA are strengthening their R&D initiatives in the areas of power supply, cooling, operating systems and high-density racks to enable the next generation of AI factories in Europe and beyond.
This unique global partnership brings together the world's leading players in sustainability and accelerated computing to support the European Union's AI infrastructure ambitions. It is in line with the “InvestAI initiative, which aims to mobilise €200 billion in investments in AI.
Based on their combined expertise in AI-ready infrastructure, sustainability and grid coordination, Schneider Electric and NVIDIA are implementing the “AI Continent Action Plan” from the European Commission. This action plan includes the joint ambition to set up at least 13 AI factories in Europe, as well as to realise up to five AI gigafactories.
“Schneider Electric and NVIDIA are not just partners. Our teams work closely together on advanced R&D and co-create the infrastructure needed to realise new AI factories worldwide,” says Olivier Blum, CEO of Schneider Electric. “Together, we have already achieved great success with the rollout of innovative power supply and liquid cooling solutions designed specifically for AI data centres. In this strategic partnership, two leading companies in the field of sustainability and accelerated computing are working together to push the boundaries of what is possible for tomorrow's AI workloads.”
“AI is the most defining technology of our time, transforming our world,” said Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive officer of NVIDIA. “Together with Schneider Electric, we are building AI factories: the essential infrastructure that makes AI available to every business, every industry and society as a whole.”
To support this, Schneider Electric has also presented a range of new AI-ready data centre solutions, including new EcoStruxure™ Pod and Rack infrastructures. The Prefabricated Modular EcoStruxure Pod Data Centre is designed to accelerate AI developments worldwide. This scalable, pod-based architecture enables rapid roll-out of AI data centres.
Part of this is a new rack system inspired by the Open Compute Project (OCP), developed to support the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72platform that utilises the modular NVIDIA MGX architecture. This marks Schneider Electric's first integration into the NVIDIA HGX– and MGX ecosystems.
The announcements build on earlier milestones that both companies have already achieved together this year. For example, Schneider Electric and ETAP previously unveiled the very first digital twin for electrical and large-scale energy systems in AI factories, using the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint.
In addition, Schneider Electric and NVIDIA have a series of reference designs developed for high-density power and liquid cooling to support AI clusters. Schneider Electric has been recognised as an official CDU (Coolant Distribution Unit) supplier for NVIDIA. Many of these designs incorporate solutions from the liquid cooling portfolio of Motivair, which was acquired by Schneider Electric in March 2025.
Through this expanded and strengthened strategic partnership, Schneider Electric and NVIDIA will continue to intensify their infrastructure initiatives. This will accelerate the rollout of new product launches and reference designs to enable the AI factories of the future.
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