Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) has announced a production-grade digital twin capability for Vertiv SmartRun, its integrated physical infrastructure system, built into the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint. The development marks the first phase of Vertiv’s AI factory digital twin roadmap and is designed to bring model-based planning to data centre infrastructure build-outs at AI scale.

The collaboration, which also involves Dassault Systemes, was demonstrated at Computex Taipei 2026. It combines AI infrastructure, simulation, and model-based systems engineering capabilities to support the planning and deployment of next-generation AI factories.

Closing the Gap Between Compute and Infrastructure

The core problem Vertiv is addressing is the mismatch between the pace of accelerated compute innovation and the slower, document-driven processes that traditionally govern physical infrastructure planning. The Vertiv SmartRun digital twin shifts this to a model-based approach: infrastructure is designed, simulated, and validated as a unified system before build-out begins, capturing configurations and dependencies in a virtual environment and reducing late-stage design changes and integration risk.

“AI infrastructure can no longer be planned one compute generation at a time. To deliver more tokens per second per megawatt, customers need power, cooling, controls, and deployment workflows to be designed as one interdependent system. The Vertiv SmartRun digital twin helps encode Vertiv’s infrastructure expertise into configurable, simulation-ready building blocks that support faster, more confident AI factory planning.” — Scott Armul, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Vertiv

NVIDIA and Dassault Integration

NVIDIA‘s Omniverse DSX Blueprint enables gigawatt-scale AI factory digital twins using OpenUSD, SimReady assets, and power, thermal, and operational simulations. Bringing Vertiv SmartRun into this workflow allows customers to evaluate infrastructure choices earlier and prepare for multiple generations of accelerated computing before those requirements reach full deployment scale. The demonstrator at Computex was built using Dassault Systemes’ model-based systems engineering capabilities on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, connected to NVIDIA Omniverse DSX workflows.

Vertiv describes the SmartRun digital twin as the first phase in a multi-phase AI factory digital twin roadmap that will extend to Vertiv OneCore Rubin DSX and preserve engineering intent from early configuration through deployment, commissioning, lifecycle assurance, and future optimisation.