How this $130 billion energy management company is fueling Nvidia’s infrastructure growth (www.cnbc.com)

Schneider Electric, the global energy-management firm, announced a collaboration with Nvidia to develop sustainable, AI-ready data center infrastructure — including R&D work and turnkey blueprints that speed construction and deployment. The joint designs focus on integrated power management, liquid-on-chip cooling, high-density rack systems and controls tuned for Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell accelerators. Schneider says the blueprints standardize systems for power, cooling and rack density to shorten build timelines and ensure each new GPU generation is supported with minimal energy overhead. The partnership matters because as AI workloads and accelerator density grow, energy management becomes a gating factor for scale, cost and sustainability. Tighter integration of power, cooling and operations creates “intelligent” data centers that dynamically optimize consumption across on-site generation and the grid, enabling higher performance per watt and faster rollout of AI factories. Technically, direct liquid cooling and integrated power-control frameworks are key to handling Blackwell-class thermal and power density. For the AI/ML community, that means more predictable, energy-efficient capacity for training and inference — and a feedback loop where AI tools help orchestrate energy use even as overall compute demand rises.