NVIDIA has announced the Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design and made its Omniverse DSX Blueprint generally available, offering a standardised architecture for building artificial intelligence infrastructure alongside physically accurate digital twins for factory design and operations.
The reference design integrates compute, networking, storage, power, cooling and control into a repeatable blueprint intended to maximise the number of AI tokens processed per watt of energy consumed and reduce the time required to bring new AI infrastructure into production.
The Vera Rubin DSX software stack is modular and includes several components: DSX Max-Q for improving compute output per watt, DSX Flex for grid-aware power management, DSX Exchange for integrating information technology and operational technology systems securely, and DSX Sim with DSX Air and DSX SimReady tools for building high-fidelity digital twins.
More than a dozen industry partners, including Cadence, Dassault Systèmes, Eaton, Jacobs, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Vertiv and Trane Technologies, are integrating their platforms with the architecture and supplying simulation-ready assets.
Energy companies, including Emerald AI, GE Vernova, Hitachi and Siemens Energy are already using the DSX reference architecture, with NVIDIA citing over $300 billion in equipment backlogs and more than 200 gigawatts of projects queued in US grid interconnection processes as context for the urgency of the work.
Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's founder and chief executive, said intelligence tokens had become the currency of the AI era and that AI factories were the infrastructure producing them.
The Omniverse DSX Blueprint enables operators to model and test factory configurations digitally before committing to physical build-out, reducing design risk and operational costs at scale.
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The announcement positions the combined offering as a response to the growing complexity of deploying AI compute infrastructure, where mismatches between power, cooling and networking can significantly limit performance and efficiency.
The Omniverse DSX Blueprint is now generally available on build.nvidia.com and is fully compatible with the Vera Rubin DSX reference design, the company said in an announcement, enabling users to simulate layouts, power topologies and operational policies before construction or deployment.
The recap
- NVIDIA launched Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory and Omniverse DSX.
- Industry partners supply SimReady assets and integration across DSX architecture.
- Energy partners aim to unlock grid capacity amid $300 billion backlog.
