NVIDIA Adds DSX Ready Checklist For AI Factory Power And Cooling

NVIDIA is turning more of its AI factory blueprint into a formal supplier checklist, ServeTheHome reported, launching a DSX Ready qualification program for the power and cooling equipment that sits around its rack-scale systems.

The program begins with two component classes that matter when customers try to bring dense AI racks online: battery energy storage systems, or BESS, and cooling distribution units, or CDUs.

NVIDIA does not sell those products itself.

DSX Ready instead gives buyers and system partners a way to identify ancillary hardware that has been checked against NVIDIA's requirements for DSX deployments.

The move extends an existing certification model.

NVIDIA already uses an "NVIDIA product qualified" label for CDUs, and DSX Ready adds a broader program name, wider component coverage and more explicit requirements.

The operating goal is to make DGX and DSX rack installations closer to a packaged AI factory design, rather than leaving customers to validate every supporting power and cooling choice on their own.

That matters because NVIDIA's data centre strategy now depends on an ecosystem as much as on individual accelerators.

CUDA handles the software layer, MGX gives partners a modular server design path, NVLink supports coherent fabric connections, and DSX covers rack-scale AI systems.

A branded qualification track for outside power and thermal hardware pulls another part of the deployment stack into the same orbit.

The qualification path is not identical for both equipment groups.

CDU vendors can self-qualify by meeting NVIDIA's function and performance specifications, although final approval still remains with NVIDIA.

BESS suppliers face a more involved route: they must run qualification tests and submit the data for NVIDIA review and signoff, reflecting the tighter electrical and safety requirements around battery systems.

The first qualified CDU vendors are LG Electronics, LiquidStack and Vertiv.

Hitachi Energy, LG Energy Solution and Tesla are the first qualified BESS vendors.

Those names give the launch an immediate supplier list for customers that want a starting point for DSX power backup and liquid-cooling decisions.

One business detail remains outside the launch materials.

NVIDIA has not disclosed whether vendors pay to participate in DSX Ready or to use the branding.

For customers, the more immediate effect is practical: a shorter list of tested supporting systems for facilities that need to align power, cooling and rack hardware before installation begins.

DSX Ready is live now, but the initial categories appear deliberately narrow.

NVIDIA framed CDUs and BESS as the first areas covered, leaving room for additional data centre components to be added as the DSX ecosystem expands.