The factory-integrated and digitally validated Vertiv™ OneCore infrastructure reduces the complexity of on-site implementation and accelerates the certainty of timing, in a context of increasingly stringent construction constraints
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, announced a major evolution in the construction of high-density data centers, moving from traditional static models to a high-fidelity Digital Twin platform. This technology-driven approach accelerates the implementation of integrated modular solutions Vertiv™ OneCore, enabling operators to scale AI factories with unprecedented speed and accuracy.
As demand for AI training and inference capabilities accelerates, operators are finding that traditional construction methods are failing to scale up to meet the needs. The industry is facing a convergence of physical and logistical constraints that threaten project timelines.
At the heart of Vertiv's physics-based design strategy and digital approach is the next-generation shift from traditional static Building Information Modeling (BIM) to a dynamic digital environment built on SimReady assets with Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) export capabilities. This unified and comprehensive digital infrastructure overcomes fragmented design and construction workflows, reducing reliance on hard-to-source expertise, inconsistent quality, sequential processes, weather, and silos between different technical disciplines. The result radically changes implementation dynamics, accelerating time to operation, repeatability and performance.
“The industry is reaching the limits of what traditional sequential construction can offer,” said Giordano Albertazzi, Chief Executive Officer of Vertiv. "We are not replacing engineering rigor, we are moving from a product-in-a-product mentality, where mechanical and electrical systems compete for space and control, to a unitary and completely coherent system, where the digital design and the physical asset are inseparable. It's not just about prefabrication: it's convergence and interoperability that unlock cumulative gains in speed and efficiency."
Deploying Vertiv OneCore delivers real financial benefits for NeoCloud, hyperscale, colocation, enterprise and sovereign operators:
- Vertiv OneCore is built around standardized, factory-integrated elements for power, cooling, heat dissipation, overhead corridor infrastructure and services, brought together in a single converged physical infrastructure designed to simplify execution and compress time by reducing the intensity and complexity of on-site work.
- Speed to accelerate revenues: Integrated and factory tested, Vertiv™ OneCore reduces site work, commissioning and commissioning time by up to 50% compared to traditional constructions.
- Density for asset efficiency: up to 30% less space than traditional buildings, enabling greater computing density, less infrastructure expansion and higher revenues per square meter.
- Reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO): up to 25% savings compared to traditional construction, thanks to moving work off-site, reducing rework and minimizing costs and waste that cannot be repeated in the field.
- Future-ready infrastructure: Scalable blocks with configurable densities up to 600 kW per rack, designed to support multiple future generations of compute.
Strategic collaboration with Hut 8
Hut 8 Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT), an energy infrastructure platform that integrates energy, digital infrastructure and large-scale computing to support next-generation energy-intensive deployments, has partnered with Vertiv to integrate Vertiv™ OneCore converged physical infrastructure into select data center projects across its roadmap. By combining Hut 8's power-first, innovation-driven approach with Vertiv's fully converged and interoperable systems, the companies have created an industrialized, scalable, and repeatable solution for building AI data centers. The approach is designed to accelerate timelines and ensure design certainty by integrating constraints early, while maintaining the technical rigor required by modern computing workloads.
“We view AI data center infrastructure as an integrated, energy-based industrial system, not a collection of bespoke real estate projects,” said Asher Genoot, CEO of Hut 8. “Collaborating with Vertiv to implement the Vertiv OneCore architecture strengthens our ability to standardize design, maintain tight delivery timelines, and increase execution reliability for large-scale AI infrastructure projects.”
For this initial deployment, Vertiv and Hut 8 collaborated to develop an industrialized AI infrastructure architecture, aligning Vertiv's converged physical infrastructure system with Hut 8's large-scale digital and energy platform.
Vertiv™ OneCore is developed with a single design goal, tightly integrating Vertiv's power chain, thermal chain, IT space, controls and services as an infrastructure platform for accelerated computing blocks, supporting evolving AI factory requirements without tying the architecture to a single computing ecosystem. Modular electrical and mechanical elements, combined with system-level digital models, allow customers to standardize a repeatable physical architecture while maintaining the flexibility to support multiple future generations of computing.
