AI Infrastructure

San Jose – October 13, 2026 -- Wiwynn, Ayar Labs and Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) are showing the first live demonstration of a compute system that integrates GUC's ASIC with Ayar Labs' TeraPHY optical engine and SuperNova light source while streaming real-time health telemetry, at OCP Global Summit 2026.

Demo moves CPO from rack-level architecture to platform integration and functional validation

The demonstration advances the companies' earlier rack-level architecture collaboration. Wiwynn's system integrates GUC's multi-chip packages (MCPs) with TeraPHY optical engines (OEs), powered by the Ayar Labs SuperNova light source. Telemetry is continuously polled from the OEs inside the MCPs and displayed in real time, showing the optical link is up within the system.

Columbus – – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) has acquired Strategic Thermal Labs LLC (STL), a specialist in advanced liquid-cooling technologies, to strengthen its engineering capability where server-side liquid cooling meets supporting infrastructure in AI and high-performance computing environments. Financial terms were not disclosed.

STL adds cold-plate design and high-density thermal validation expertise

STL brings cold-plate design, server-side liquid cooling and high-density thermal validation capabilities. Vertiv expects the expertise to improve its ability to simulate and emulate real high-density compute conditions.

The company also expects to optimize the interaction between the thermal chain and the power train. It plans to support customers across design, integration, commissioning and lifecycle operations.

Columbus – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) has advanced a production-grade digital twin for its VertivTM SmartRun system, integrated into the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint, as the first phase of a multi-phase AI factory digital twin roadmap.

Model-based design replaces document-based handoffs across power, cooling and controls

Vertiv says document-based processes and siloed handoffs between power, cooling, controls and deployment teams cannot keep pace as AI deployments scale to higher densities and larger capacities. The SmartRun digital twin captures system configurations and dependencies in a virtual environment, so infrastructure can be designed, simulated and validated as a single system before build-out.

Vertiv expects this to reduce late-stage design changes and integration risk, and to shorten the time from planning to operational readiness.

Columbus, Ohio – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) has opened a manufacturing facility in Johor, Malaysia, to serve rising demand for AI and high-density computing infrastructure across Southeast Asia, North Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The site is expected to bring hundreds of skilled jobs to the region once fully operational in 2027.

The plant adds regional manufacturing, engineering, logistics and deployment capacity in one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing industrial markets. Vertiv cites the site's regional connectivity and proximity to key technology and customer hubs.

Johor plant handles manufacturing, assembly and full-scale witness testing

The facility covers end-to-end manufacturing, assembly and full-scale witness testing of thermal and power infrastructure. Vertiv says validated performance reduces deployment risk and speeds time to capacity for enterprise, cloud and colocation customers.

Tognana, Italy – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv expects to double chiller production capacity at its Tognana campus near Padua by the end of 2026, as demand for AI and high-density computing infrastructure drives investment in data center cooling.

The NYSE-listed company will also complete a new large-scale testing laboratory in early 2027, adding integrated validation capacity to the site.

New laboratory will test chillers with liquid cooling under extreme loads

The facility will test large-scale chillers and validate how they integrate with liquid cooling systems under high-density load conditions and extreme temperature ranges. Vertiv says the capability lets customers verify thermal performance under expected site conditions. The aim is to deploy increasingly complex cooling systems with greater speed and confidence.

Columbus, Ohio – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv Holdings Co. has agreed to acquire microgrid specialist Utility Innovation Holdings, operating as UtilityInnovation Group (UIG), for about $1.45 billion in cash at closing, plus up to $1.15 billion in additional cash tied to EBITDA targets over 12- and 24-month periods.

Vertiv's wholly-owned subsidiary, Vertiv Corporation, signed the merger agreement. If the full earnout is paid, total consideration could reach $2.6 billion.

Vertiv prices UIG at about 13x expected 2027 EBITDA

At the $1.45 billion upfront price, the deal values UIG at roughly 13x its expected 2027 EBITDA. Vertiv expects that multiple to be significantly lower if the full earnout is paid. The company expects the acquisition to be accretive to adjusted earnings per share in the first year after completion.

Columbus, Ohio – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv's 2.3 MW CoolChip coolant distribution unit (CDU) has qualified as a NVIDIA DSX Ready CDU, making it the first CDU to qualify specifically under the program, the company said.

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) is among the initial providers of qualified CDU solutions in NVIDIA DSX Ready. The program lets AI factory builders identify power and cooling products that meet applicable NVIDIA DSX requirements.

Qualification rests on NVIDIA's CDU self-qualification suite

For CDU providers, the program uses the NVIDIA CDU self-qualification suite to determine whether a specific offering meets applicable functional requirements. NVIDIA DSX Ready connects individual products to those requirements.

The qualification does not replace site-specific engineering. Customers must still determine how a qualified product fits their facility design, system configuration and operating requirements.

Columbus – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) named 11 channel partners as 2025 North America Partner Award recipients, with World Wide Technology (WWT) taking the top Partner of the Year honor for year-over-year growth and continued investment in joint AI strategy. Winners were selected on 2025 results, growth trajectory and customer impact.

WWT wins top award on AI factory deployments

WWT's successful AI factory deployments and the integration of Vertiv technologies into its Advanced Technology Center accelerated AI solution innovation and deepened customer engagement, according to Vertiv. Alex Johnson, Vice President, North America Channel Sales, said demand for "high-density, AI-ready environments" is growing and partners are helping customers deploy scalable infrastructure faster.

San Jose – October 12, 2026 -- Wiwynn unveiled a 6kW double-sided cold plate that it says cuts power delivery loss by up to 80%, alongside AI rack platforms for NVIDIA and AMD and a co-packaged optics (CPO) rack, at the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose.

Wiwynn joins NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 pilot build program

Wiwynn and Wistron are among the first NVIDIA Pilot Build Partners for the Vera Rubin NVL72 platform, covering engineering validation and design-in. The liquid-cooled, rack-scale system integrates 72 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and 36 NVIDIA Vera CPUs with 6th-generation NVIDIA NVLink.

Wiwynn is also applying its rack integration and manufacturing capabilities to AMD's Helios rackscale solution, built on the Open Rack Wide (ORW) standard. Helios combines AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, 6th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs, AMD Pensando networking and AMD ROCm software, with configurations tailored to cloud service provider (CSP) requirements.

San Jose – October 12, 2026 -- Wistron Corporation and Wiwynn Corporation say they are among the first manufacturers ready to build NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale platform, which unifies 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs in a fully liquid-cooled design. The two companies are showing the system at the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose under the theme "Create AI Beyond Limits."

Vera Rubin NVL72 combines 72 GPUs, 36 CPUs and BlueField-4 DPUs

The NVL72 platform links 72 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and 36 NVIDIA Vera CPUs through NVIDIA NVLink. It also integrates NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNICs and NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs. Wistron and Wiwynn describe it as built for the resiliency, energy efficiency and scalability that AI factories demand, and optimized for frontier AI model training, inference and reasoning.