By Ryan Smith
Publication Date: 2026-09-22 15:00:00
NVIDIA this week has announced that they are launching a new qualification program for DSX AI factory power and cooling parts. The DSX Ready program will see NVIDIA offer qualification guidelines for both battery energy storage systems (BESS) and cooling distribution units (CDUs) – both classes of data center parts that NVIDIA itself does not provide – with the goal of giving customers clear guidance on what parts are confirmed to work with NVIDIA’s DSX racks in the process of bringing up their own systems. NVIDIA is initially starting with batteries and cooling, but the company has indicated that they expect to expand the DSX Ready program in the future.
With the DSX Ready program, NVIDIA is looking to flesh out their current server hardware certification program with a wide array of components and a stronger degree of branding behind it. The company already offers the “NVIDIA product qualified” label for CDUs, and this expands that in terms of requirements and the types of components offered. The ultimate goal being to move the installation of DGX server racks into an even more turn-key solution than it already is today, by not only working with their OEM partners to provide racks of the critical hardware as part of their DGX AI factory blueprint, but also giving them clear guidance on whose ancillary parts have been confirmed to work with those rack scale systems.
The DSX Ready program marks the latest in a long list…