en.Wedoany.com Report on Mar 26th, NVIDIA and Emergent AI have announced a collaboration with energy companies including AES, Constellation, Invenergy, NextEra Energy, Nscale Energy & Power, and Vistra to advance the development of a new type of AI factory. These factories are designed to connect to the power grid more quickly, generate AI tokens and intelligent outputs, while also serving as flexible energy assets to support grid operations.
By integrating leaders from technology, energy, and infrastructure sectors, this collaboration demonstrates how cross-industry companies can work together to support AI innovation and build a more reliable power system for the public. The new generation of AI factories will adopt NVIDIA's Vera Rubin DSX reference design, which includes the DSX Flex software library that connects the factory to the power grid.
To accelerate deployment, factories can utilize co-located energy generation and storage as transitional power, later flexibly dispatching these resources to the grid, speeding up AI factory interconnection and supporting the broader power system. This approach helps bring AI computing power online faster while creating more value for customers and communities. The DSX reference architecture also supports flexible AI factories without co-located energy resources, enabling larger-scale and faster grid connections.
Emergent AI's Conductor platform will coordinate computing elasticity with on-site resources like generation and batteries, providing power elasticity that precisely responds to grid demands while ensuring service quality for AI computing tenants. This coordination helps operators achieve power goals, protect priority workloads, shorten transitional power usage time, and support larger and faster interconnections, while reducing the need to size infrastructure around peak demand.
Power-elastic AI factories could help unlock up to 100 gigawatts of capacity in the U.S. power system by optimizing infrastructure design and efficiently utilizing existing assets, reducing the need for massive grid expansion. AI factories convert electricity into AI tokens, models, and intelligent outputs, requiring innovation in both computing technology and energy infrastructure operations.
AES, Constellation, Invenergy, NextEra Energy, Nscale Energy & Power, and Vistra are committed to building the necessary generation capacity to meet surging demand. These companies will collaborate to evaluate and optimize generation solutions, including hybrid projects using co-located power, to shorten power delivery timelines and create value for the grid.
Over the past year, Emergent AI and NVIDIA have conducted AI power elasticity demonstration tests at five commercial data centers globally. DSX Flex is expected to achieve commercial-scale deployment later this year at the NVIDIA AI Factory Research Center in Virginia, which is planned to be among the world's first power-elastic AI factories adopting NVIDIA's Vera Rubin infrastructure. The involved companies plan to advance projects built using the Vera Rubin DSX reference design and DSX Flex to accelerate large-scale AI infrastructure deployment and support grid interconnection.
