Batteries from Tesla, Hitachi Energy and LG Energy Solution, and cooling units from Vertiv, LiquidStack and LG Electronics, now carry Nvidia’s blessing for AI factory builds. The company opened DSX Ready, a qualification program tied to the requirements in its DSX reference designs.
Two product classes lead the program, battery energy storage systems and cooling distribution units, with more categories planned across infrastructure and software.
Why certify suppliers at all comes down to where the limits sit. Power, water, cooling, land and grid capacity now decide what a builder can actually stand up, and fixing one part of a site frequently pushes the constraint somewhere else. A common label tells buyers what to look for and tells vendors what bar to clear. Nvidia warns that passing does not substitute for site engineering or promise stability at a given location.
Battery vendors run required tests and hand over supporting data for review inside a defined boundary. Cooling vendors work through a self-qualification suite against functional requirements. Both streams feed into the DSX platform, which Nvidia pitches as one system covering compute, networking, power, cooling, facilities and software.
