Schneider Electric Announces New Solutions to Address the Energy
and Sustainability Challenges Spurred by AI
• Latest announcements bolster company’s mission to
decarbonize digital infrastructure, while enabling customers to
deploy more sustainable, AI-ready data center solutions anywhere,
at scale. • New GB200 NVL72 reference design, co-developed with
NVIDIA, provides a proven, validated, and highly energy efficient
architecture to support NVIDIA’s new Blackwell chip.• Introduces
Galaxy VXL UPS, the industry’s most compact, high-density power
protection system for AI, data center, and large-scale electrical
workloads.
Rueil-Malmaison, France, Dec. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of
energy management and automation, has today accelerated its
end-to-end AI-ready data center solutions with new announcements
that address the urgent energy and sustainability challenges driven
by high demand for AI systems.
The first part of the announcement is a new data center
reference design, co-developed with
NVIDIA, which will support liquid-cooled, high-density AI
clusters of up to 132 kW per rack. Optimized for NVIDIA’s GB200
NVL72 and Blackwell chips, the design streamlines planning and
deployment with proven, validated architectures, addressing the
unique challenges of utilizing liquid cooling at-scale.
Additionally, Schneider Electric has today 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. Galaxy VXL UPS offers 52% space
savings compared with the industry average, and with a power
density of up to 1042 kW/m², this scalable, 1.25 MW modular UPS is
designed to deliver more efficient power in a smaller, high-density
footprint.
Both innovations form part of Schneider Electric’s end-to-end,
AI-ready data center solutions, which focus on three key areas
including developing an energy strategy for the AI
era; deploying advanced infrastructure;
and sustainability consulting. They seek to
benefit data center owners and operators as they deploy energy
efficient, high-density infrastructure to support AI workloads as
sustainably as possible.
“The energy and environmental impact of AI is growing at
unprecedented pace, and it’s paramount we bend the energy curve
downward by finding new ways to decarbonize data centers and the
digital infrastructure,” said Pankaj Sharma, Executive Vice
President, Data Centers & Networks at Schneider Electric. “At
Schneider Electric, we are committed to pushing boundaries, setting
new standards, and shaping the future of AI, whilst protecting the
environment. This requires a strategic approach from the grid to
the chip, to the chiller, and beyond.”
Partnership With NVIDIA
Schneider Electric’s newest data center reference design has
been co-developed with NVIDIA to support liquid-cooled, AI
clusters, while addressing the unique challenges of deploying
liquid cooling within hyperscale, colocation and enterprise data
center environments.
Building on the companies’ partnership, the reference design
includes options for liquid-to-liquid Coolant Distribution Units
(CDUs) and direct-to-chip liquid cooling, and shares comprehensive
mechanical and electrical plans to ensure more energy efficient and
sustainable operations for the AI data centers of the future.
Developed using Schneider Electric’s software tools including
Ecodial and EcoStruxure™ IT Design CFD, the design can be
customized to meet specific requirements of the AI workload, while
helping users to leverage the most sustainable and energy efficient
infrastructure designs for high-density applications.
“Building the future of accelerated computing and AI requires
speed and a bedrock foundation," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO
of NVIDIA. "Our work with Schneider Electric enables customers to
design the world’s technological advances on stable and resilient
infrastructure. Together, we’re creating AI data centers that are
purpose-built for accelerated computing, supporting complex
architectures that are essential to deliver digital intelligence to
every company and industry."
End-to-End AI Data Center Solutions
The announcements made at today’s
virtual event bolster Schneider Electric’s
commitments to creating comprehensive, sustainable, and end-to-end
AI-ready data center solutions, helping customers to decarbonize
their digital infrastructure anywhere, globally. They focus on
three key areas including:
Energy Strategy for The AI Era: Schneider
Electric supports companies in securing renewable energy and
optimizing on-site power generation with diverse sources like wind,
solar, and hydrogen. It provides services such as site selection
and geographical analysis based on customers’ deployment plans and
enables on-site power generation through AlphaStruxure, which
ensures speed to market, reliability, resilience, and
sustainability of chosen power sources.
Advanced Infrastructure Solutions: Schneider
Electric has developed a comprehensive portfolio of high-density,
energy-efficient infrastructure systems for a host of AI
requirements exceeding 100kW per rack. This includes data center
infrastructure components from grid-to-chip and chip-to-chiller,
AI-powered remote monitoring and energy management software, and
digital services for lifecycle optimization.
Schneider Electric’s new Galaxy VXL UPS, announced today, is the
latest addition to the company’s end-to-end, advanced
infrastructure portfolio. For the first time, this new UPS provides
customers 1.25mw scalable and modular solution with 125kw/3U power
modules in 1.2m2 footprint, while being capable of supporting up to
1.25 MW of critical load in one frame and up to 5 MW with 4 units
in parallel in only 4.8 M2 space.
Additionally, to address the increased temperatures of
high-density workloads, Schneider Electric recently signed an
agreement to acquire a majority stake in the Motivair Corporation,
enhancing its liquid cooling portfolio and strengthening its
expertise in direct-to-chip liquid cooling and high-capacity
thermal solutions.
Efficiency and Sustainability: Schneider
Electric’s Sustainability Consulting business helps customers
exceed decarbonization goals via tailored sustainability
strategies, emissions assessments, and supplier engagement
programs. These global consulting services offer customers
data-driven insights via EcoStruxure Resource Advisor, and are
supported by 2,400 experts in 100+ countries.
Bending The Energy Curve of AI
Schneider Electric also advocates for a science-based approach
to "bend the curve" of energy consumption. Central to this approach
is employing “energy intelligence for sustainable AI”. Schneider
Electric believes this can be achieved by integrating data center
infrastructure with AI-driven applications.
This way, industries can not only mitigate AI's energy footprint
but also use AI monitoring capabilities and insights as tools for
broader decarbonization efforts. Achieving this vision requires a
united commitment to deploying sustainable solutions and leveraging
AI’s potential to drive efficiency across all sectors.
“By 2027, data center electricity consumption is projected to
account for 2.5% of global demand, with the remaining 97.5% spread
across industries such as buildings, manufacturing, transportation,
and energy," said Sean Graham, Research Director, Cloud to Edge
Datacenter Trends, IDC. "While data centers pursue their own
net-zero goals amid unprecedented growth, the real sustainability
promise lies in leveraging AI to decarbonize entire value chains
across industries. As Schneider Electric and NVIDIA have
demonstrated, long-term collaboration and innovation are essential
to driving efficiency and sustainability.”
For more information about Schneider Electric’s new reference
design, co-developed with NVIDIA, its Galaxy VXL UPS or its
end-to-end, AI-ready data center solutions, visit the website.
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