2026-03-06
Beijing, China – November 20, 2025 – The Vertiv™ SmartArray Micro Module with Slim Air Wall was recognized as a star product at the 2025 CDCC Data Center Standards Conference. AI is reshaping every industry at an unprecedented pace. Yet, in real-world AIDC deployment scenarios, the challenges extend far beyond computing power itself — they increasingly stem from persistent uncertainty. Should you choose air-cooled or liquid-cooled GPU server architectures? Will capacity expansion be needed in one year, or will it not materialize for three years? In complex and ever-changing application environments, how can computing power run faster, more stably, and more efficiently? These critical questions have become core issues that must be addressed in the construction and evolution of AIDCs.
Faced with accelerating GPU evolution and increasingly complex business changes, Vertiv hosted a live streaming event titled “Returning Choice to Computing Power – Decoding the Next-Generation Intelligent Computing MDC.” Industry expert Mr. Zhang Guangbin, founder of YeeQi Research Institute, joined Vertiv’s product and R&D experts to deeply analyze the pain points of AI computing infrastructure and jointly decode the next-generation intelligent computing MDC.
Elastic Adaptability: Air-Cooled, Liquid-Cooled, or Smooth Upgrade
With end-to-end integrated adaptability from cooling to power distribution, the Vertiv™ SmartArray enables unified hosting and smooth evolution for current and future mainstream AI server form factors, covering:
Fully air-cooled cabinet (45kW/R)
Liquid-cooled blind-mate cabinet (100kW/R)
Liquid-cooled manual-mate cabinet (100kW/R)
Liquid-cooled rack-level integration (120kW/R)
Hybrid air-liquid rack-level integration (70kW/R)
With a single architecture deployment, it achieves full coverage of five cabinet types, providing a more robust and sustainable infrastructure foundation for data centers facing different technology paths and expansion timelines.
High Density & High Efficiency: Proximity Cooling × Proximity Power Distribution
The Vertiv™ SmartArray is built on the core concept of “proximity cooling + proximity power distribution.” Through the industry’s first slim air wall placed opposite the cabinet side and a proximity power distribution architecture, it brings cooling and power closer to the heat source and load side. This shortens the computing power path, enables more precise resource allocation, and reduces unnecessary system losses and detours.
Shorter link: Cooling and power distribution are deployed close to the heat source and power load
Lower latency: Minimizes GPU-to-switch path differences, improving cluster consistency
Higher compute efficiency: Overall improvement in training efficiency and resource utilization
Compared with traditional micro-module solutions, the SmartArray also saves approximately 30% in floor space, further unlocking space and energy efficiency value in high-density deployment scenarios.
Minimalist & Reliable: 1DNA Architecture + AI Early Warning + 170+ Validation Tests
The Vertiv™ SmartArray takes lifecycle reliability as its design baseline. Through three pillars — integrated architecture, intelligent O&M, and systematic verification — it continuously strengthens the high availability and stability of intelligent computing centers.
1DNA converged cooling and power architecture: A unified architecture enables coordinated design and consistent delivery of cooling and power distribution, reducing system complexity and potential failure points
AI health early warning: Health assessment based on operational data can identify key risk points 3–4 weeks in advance, supporting proactive O&M and closed-loop risk elimination
170+ reliability validation tests: Covering extreme environmental adaptability, electrical safety, EMC, and other key dimensions, fully validating engineering-grade reliable delivery
Your intelligent computing center will maintain high availability, high stability, and a more predictable O&M experience over long-term operation.
Conclusion
With its integrated cooling and power convergence capabilities, the Vertiv™ SmartArray delivers a flexible evolution path that “adapts to any core,” helping intelligent computing centers confidently respond to ever-changing server form factors and deployment requirements. It breaks the boundaries and constraints of traditional architectures, truly returning the choice of technology path and expansion timeline to computing power itself.
