Summary
NVIDIA has launched DSX Ready, a qualification programme for partner products used in AI-factory power and cooling systems. It begins with battery energy storage systems and cooling distribution units from six listed providers.
NVIDIA has launched NVIDIA DSX Ready, a qualification programme intended to help AI-factory builders identify power and cooling products that meet applicable requirements in NVIDIA’s DSX AI-factory reference designs.
The programme starts with two infrastructure categories: battery energy storage systems (BESS) and cooling distribution units (CDUs). NVIDIA says the qualification process is designed to give builders a clearer way to evaluate partner products, reduce integration risk and move towards deployment.
What DSX Ready covers
NVIDIA describes an AI factory as an integrated system spanning compute, networking, power, cooling, facilities and software. Its DSX AI Factory platform is intended to help partners design and operate those elements together within available power, cooling, water and grid constraints.
That system-level approach is important because improving one part of an AI facility can shift the limiting factor elsewhere. A higher-density computing system, for example, can increase both electrical demand and heat that must be removed. BESS products provide stored electrical energy, while CDUs are part of the liquid-cooling infrastructure that distributes coolant between computing equipment and facility systems.
At launch, NVIDIA lists qualified BESS solutions from Hitachi Energy, LG Energy Solution and Tesla. Qualified CDU solutions are listed from LG Electronics, LiquidStack and Vertiv. The programme uses requirements tailored to each product category rather than applying one common test to every type of infrastructure.
NVIDIA says additional categories covering infrastructure and software will be introduced over time.
How the qualification process works
For BESS providers, the process involves running required qualification tests and submitting supporting data for NVIDIA’s review and approval within a defined qualification boundary. For CDU providers, the process uses a CDU self-qualification suite to assess whether a particular offering meets the applicable NVIDIA functional requirements.
This creates a link between NVIDIA’s reference designs and specific products that builders can consider during facility planning. Instead of evaluating a power-storage or cooling product only as a standalone component, engineering teams can use its DSX Ready qualification as one input when assessing how it fits a planned AI-factory configuration.
The qualification is not a substitute for designing the facility around its site conditions. NVIDIA specifically says that passing BESS qualification does not replace site-level engineering or imply site-level stability. Similarly, a qualified CDU may meet the relevant cooling criteria while the builder still has to determine whether it suits the planned facility, configuration and operating requirements.
The practical value of DSX Ready is therefore a more defined selection path for infrastructure suppliers and AI-factory builders. It can narrow the initial set of products for consideration, while the final system design remains dependent on the site and the way compute, power, cooling, water and grid connections are configured.