Columbus, Ohio, November 11 (Reuters/PR Newswire) — Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT) today launched the Vertiv™ PowerNexus MV UPS, a medium-voltage power solution designed to help colocation, neocloud, and hyperscale data center operators accelerate utility interconnection, optimize site utilization, and support evolving grid requirements.
This solution is designed for outdoor deployment at access points, helping to preserve valuable indoor space for revenue-generating computing power while providing continuous power protection. The company states that the system achieves a peak operational efficiency of up to 98.5% and helps reduce dependence on diesel generators. Vertiv is currently engaging with global customers and expects shipments to begin in mid-2027.
Kyle Keeper, Senior Vice President of Vertiv’s Power Management Business Unit, said: “Data centers are facing new infrastructure challenges, including grid connection queues that can delay deployment and revenue generation, indoor space constraints that limit compute density, and evolving grid requirements that challenge traditional infrastructure and architectural approaches. The Vertiv PowerNexus MV UPS is designed to address these challenges with a system-level solution that integrates medium-voltage power protection, fault ride-through, and AI-powered power smoothing into an outdoor platform engineered to operate with long-duration energy storage, enabling operators to focus on deploying compute rather than coordinating infrastructure.”
The Vertiv PowerNexus MV UPS extends power protection and management closer to the utility access point, empowering AI data center operators with the following capabilities:
- Level 1 critical load protection. This solution is designed to integrate with long-duration battery systems and delivers Level 1 output voltage quality per IEC 62040-3, helping to protect critical loads during grid disturbances and upstream faults.
- Save indoor space. Outdoor-rated base-mounted equipment relocates critical power infrastructure outside the data center, helping preserve valuable indoor space for revenue-generating computing power.
- Fault ride-through and AI-powered power smoothing. This solution is designed to support grid stability during fault conditions and absorb rapid AI-driven load fluctuations before they reach the grid.
- High operational efficiency. The linear interactive topology achieves up to 98.5% efficiency under peak conditions, helping to reduce energy consumption and operating costs.
- Reduce dependence on diesel generators. When integrated with long-duration energy storage systems, this solution provides up to four hours of battery backup power, helping to reduce reliance on diesel generators for extended backup.
- Simplified deployment. A single-vendor, baseplate architecture reduces the complexity of coordinating UPS units, batteries, and other power chain components, streamlining system deployment.
- Faster, more confident system design. The company provides Power Systems Computer Aided Design (PSCAD) models to help customers simulate system behavior, verify integration, and evaluate power quality and dynamic interactions between the Vertiv™ PowerNexus MV UPS and the broader grid before deployment.
Customer demonstration verifying the performance of the Vertiv™ PowerNexus MV UPS
Vertiv recently conducted a proof-of-concept demonstration at its Global Power R&D and Customer Experience Center in Bologna, Italy, with QTS, SoftBank, and Rosendin. The tests covered a range of steady-state and dynamic conditions, showing that the system maintained stable performance across 0% to 100% load levels, preserved first-class voltage accuracy during rapid load changes, and withstood significant voltage disturbances, including a 100% voltage sag for 150 milliseconds and a 25% voltage swell for 5 seconds.
Ryan Kuithe, Senior Vice President of QTS Facility Operations, said: “The Vertiv PowerNexus MV UPS demonstrates the performance and flexibility required to support demanding AI data center applications. In proof-of-concept testing at Vertiv’s Global Power R&D and Customer Experience Center, we validated the system’s ability to maintain stable power delivery during dynamic load changes and voltage disturbances.”
Expand medium-voltage research, testing, and customer engagement capabilities with dedicated facilities.
The enthusiastic response to recent customer demonstrations underscores the importance of Vertiv’s dedicated medium-voltage laboratory at its Global Large Power R&D and Customer Experience Center in Bologna, Italy. Scheduled to be operational in 2027, the facility will support the development, full-voltage validation, customer demonstrations, service training, and system-level testing of medium-voltage power architectures, including MV UPS, MV to 800 VDC conversion, and battery energy storage technologies. Global customers can engage with Vertiv for demonstrations and system validation.
Giovanni Zanei, Vice President of Large Power Conversion at Vertiv, said: “By supporting full-voltage R&D, testing, customer demonstrations, and system-level validation, this facility will enable customers to evaluate new architectures—including 800 VDC—with greater confidence when planning power systems for AI-scale data centers.”
About Vertiv Holdings Co.
Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT) combines hardware, software, analytics, and ongoing services to enable customers’ critical applications to run continuously, perform optimally, and scale with business needs. Vertiv addresses the most pressing challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial facilities through power, cooling, and IT infrastructure solutions and services that span from the cloud to the network edge. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv operates in more than 130 countries. For more information and the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
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