Nvidia Developing Gigawatt-Scale Data Center Reference Design

Nvidia this week announced it was developing data center reference designs to be shared with partners and enterprises worldwide, known as the AI Factory Giga-Scale Reference Designs.

Earlier this year, Nvidia introduced an Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory digital twins, allowing customers to aggregate detailed 3D and simulation data representing all aspects of the data center into a single, unified model, enabling them to design and simulate high-density hardware and allowing partners to model gigawatt-scale facilities ahead of time.

“AI factories must be plugged into broader systems - power grids, water supplies, and transportation networks - that require careful coordination and simulation throughout their lifecycle to ensure reliability and scalability,” Nvidia said. “By designing the infrastructure and technology stack in tandem, the company enables true system-level optimization - where power, cooling, compute, and software are engineered as a unified whole. Simulation plays a central role in this shift.”