Nvidia partners with Jacobs, other to build new class of AI factories

At this week’s AI Infrastructure Summit in Silicon Valley, Nvidia’s (NVDA) VP of Accelerated Computing Ian Buck unveiled a bold new vision: the transformation of traditional data centers into fully integrated AI factories. As part of this initiative, Nvidia is developing reference designs to be shared with partners and enterprises worldwide – offering an Nvidia Omniverse Blueprint for building high-performance, energy-efficient infrastructure optimized for the age of AI reasoning. Already, Nvidia is collaborating with scores of companies across every layer of the stack, from building design and grid integration to power, cooling and orchestration, the company says. “It’s a natural evolution for the company, scaling beyond chips and systems into a new class of industrial products – so complex and interconnected that no single player can build them alone.” Nvidia, along with a deep bench of industrial and technology partners, is reactivating decades of infrastructure expertise to build this new class of AI factories. Among those partners, Jacobs (J) serves as the design integrator, helping to coordinate the physical and digital layers of the infrastructure to ensure seamless orchestration. The embodiment of the reference design will be a digital twin of the AI factory. This digital twin integrates the IT systems inside the data center with the operational technology for power and cooling systems inside and outside the data center. The new initiative expands the digital twin to integrate local power generation, energy storage systems, cooling technology and AI agents for operations.