NVIDIA Launches DSX Ready to Qualify Power and Cooling Products for AI Factories

NVIDIA introduced DSX Ready, a qualification program for partner products and solutions that meet the requirements of its DSX AI factory reference designs. The company announced the program in a Sept. 21, 2026 blog post by Vishal Ganeriwala, presenting it as a way to help builders choose power and cooling equipment that fits the complete design of a data center built for AI workloads.

The program launches with two categories: battery energy storage systems (BESS) and cooling distribution units (CDUs). Category-specific requirements and a review process are meant to let builders evaluate offerings with greater confidence, reduce integration risk and move toward deployment.

An AI factory as one system

NVIDIA positions DSX as a platform that unifies AI factory design and operations across compute, networking, power, cooling, facilities and software, so partners can treat the factory as one system. Optimizing a single part of an AI factory can shift the bottleneck elsewhere, the company notes, which is why suppliers need a clear path from reference designs to qualified offerings and builders need a qualification they can rely on when selecting products.

What qualifies at launch

The initial BESS list includes Hitachi Energy, LG Energy Solution and Tesla. Qualified CDU solutions come from LG Electronics, LiquidStack and Vertiv. NVIDIA says additional categories across infrastructure and software will be rolled out over time.

For battery storage, partners run the required qualification tests and submit supporting data for NVIDIA review and approval within a defined qualification boundary. NVIDIA states that passing qualification does not replace site-level engineering or imply site-level stability. For cooling distribution units, the path runs through a CDU self-qualification suite that determines whether a specific offering meets applicable functional requirements.

Why it matters

As AI infrastructure expands, power, cooling, water, site and grid constraints increasingly shape what operators can deploy. A qualification program does not remove those limits, but it gives builders a documented starting point: teams first confirm that a product meets the relevant requirements, then assess how it fits a planned facility, its configuration and its operating needs.