NVIDIA Sets a Qualification Bar for AI Factory Power and Cooling Gear
DSX Ready's first cohort covers storage and cooling vendors, but CDUs self-qualify, so treat the label with caution when selecting equipment.
Original event 2026-09-21
NVIDIA launched DSX Ready on September 21, a qualification program that labels power and cooling products as fitting its AI factory reference designs.
Two categories launch first: battery energy storage systems, with Hitachi Energy, LG Energy Solution and Tesla qualified, and cooling distribution units, with LG Electronics, LiquidStack and Vertiv qualified. More categories will follow.
Note the limits: CDUs go through a self-qualification suite where partners run the tests themselves and submit data for NVIDIA review, and NVIDIA states that passing does not replace site-level engineering or imply site-level stability.