BERLIN, Germany, Oct 22, 2026 – Dassault Systèmes and Vertiv Holdings are collaborating to configure, simulate and validate AI factory power and cooling infrastructure before construction. The work combines Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform with Vertiv’s infrastructure designs for NVIDIA DSX AI factories.
The collaboration builds on the Vertiv SmartRun configurable virtual twin and extends that approach to other Vertiv infrastructure solutions, including OneCore. Vertiv OneCore is a hybrid-built data center system integrating critical power, thermal management and supporting infrastructure.
The companies will use 3DEXPERIENCE’s systems engineering, simulation and virtual twin capabilities to configure and validate Vertiv’s pre-engineered SimReady power and cooling reference designs. These support customer-specific configurations based on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design and NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint.
The platform can represent Vertiv infrastructure as an integrated digital system, providing traceability and visibility into design changes. Engineers can use configurable models of the SimReady assets to evaluate configurations and propagate changes across domains.
The environment supports system-level and multiphysics validation and the generation of deliverables. The companies intend this approach to preserve design intent through construction, commissioning and future technology upgrades.
Modeled Deployment Targets
The companies are targeting up to a tenfold acceleration from requirements to a validated AI factory system. They also aim to reduce the infrastructure deployment period by up to 50%.
Under assumptions in Vertiv’s model, the approach could bring capacity online approximately 10 weeks sooner than a conventional baseline. That early start could produce up to 30% more cumulative token output within 12 months of project kickoff, at the same installed capacity.
“The winners in AI will be those who can turn computing capacity into productive capacity fastest,” said Scott Armul, chief product and technology officer. “That requires the entire AI factory to work as one system, across compute, power, cooling and physical infrastructure. By combining Vertiv’s pre-engineered infrastructure expertise with Dassault Systèmes’ model-based capabilities, we can configure and validate that system before construction, reduce complexity in the field and help customers bring AI capacity online faster.”
“AI factories are among the most complex engineered systems being built today. That complexity demands a systems view – modeled, simulated, orchestrated and optimized in a virtual twin, before the entire factory is built,” said Elisa Prisner, executive vice president, strategy, industry, marketing and transformation, Dassault Systèmes. “Together with Vertiv, we are transforming standardized infrastructure knowledge into configurable virtual twins for NVIDIA DSX AI factories. Our 3DEXPERIENCE platform allows customers to explore configurations, understand the consequences of design decisions, and validate the performance of an entire system virtually, before any infrastructure exists physically.”
Source: Dassault Systèmes
About Dassault Systèmes
Dassault Systèmes SE, founded in 1981 and headquartered in Vélizy-Villacoublay, France, is a global software company focused on 3D design, digital mock-ups, and product lifecycle management. The company develops virtual tools that enable real-world applications across industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, and consumer products. Its software portfolio includes CATIA for product design, SOLIDWORKS for mechanical engineering, DELMIA for manufacturing workflows, and SIMULIA for advanced simulation. These solutions are used in aerospace, automotive, industrial equipment, consumer goods, life sciences, and technology sectors. Dassault Systèmes employed approximately 24,000 people across 200 offices worldwide.
About Vertiv Holdings
Vertiv Holdings supplies power, cooling, monitoring and information technology infrastructure products and services. Its equipment supports data centers, communications networks, commercial buildings, industrial facilities and health care operations. Products include uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution equipment, switchgear, cooling systems, racks and monitoring software. Services include installation, engineering, maintenance, commissioning and technical support. Customers include data center operators, telecommunications providers, cloud companies, manufacturers and health care organizations. Vertiv serves customers in more than 130 countries. Company history traces to Liebert Corporation in 1965, while the Vertiv name dates to a 2016 rebranding. Vertiv is headquartered in Westerville, OH. It reported about 34,000 employees worldwide.
