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Schneider Electric Announces New Solutions to Address the Energy and Sustainability Challenges Spurred by AI

Dec 04, 2024 - financialpost.com
Schneider Electric, a leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has announced new solutions to address energy and sustainability challenges spurred by AI. The company has co-developed a new data center reference design with NVIDIA, which supports liquid-cooled, high-density AI clusters of up to 132 kW per rack. The design is optimized for NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL72 and Blackwell chips. Schneider Electric has also introduced its new Galaxy VXL uninterruptible power supply (UPS), the industry’s most compact, high-density UPS designed for AI, data center, and large-scale electrical workloads.

The new solutions form part of Schneider Electric’s end-to-end, AI-ready data center solutions, which focus on developing an energy strategy for the AI era, deploying advanced infrastructure, and sustainability consulting. The company is committed to pushing boundaries, setting new standards, and shaping the future of AI, while protecting the environment. Schneider Electric also advocates for a science-based approach to “bend the curve” of energy consumption, integrating data center infrastructure with AI-driven applications to mitigate AI’s energy footprint and use AI monitoring capabilities and insights as tools for broader decarbonization efforts.

Key takeaways:

  • Schneider Electric has announced new solutions to address energy and sustainability challenges spurred by AI, including a new data center reference design co-developed with NVIDIA and a new Galaxy VXL uninterruptible power supply (UPS).
  • The new data center reference design supports liquid-cooled, high-density AI clusters of up to 132 kW per rack and is optimized for NVIDIA’s GB200 NVL72 and Blackwell chips.
  • The Galaxy VXL UPS is the industry’s most compact, high-density UPS designed for AI, data center, and large-scale electrical workloads, offering 52% space savings compared with the industry average.
  • Schneider Electric's solutions focus on three key areas: developing an energy strategy for the AI era, deploying advanced infrastructure, and sustainability consulting.
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