PARIS: Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, announced that it is collaborating with NVIDIA to serve the growing demand for sustainable, AI-ready infrastructure. Schneider Electric and NVIDIA are advancing research and development (R&D) initiatives for power, cooling, controls, and high-density rack systems to enable the next generation of AI factories across Europe and beyond.

This unique global partnership, announced during NVIDIA GTC Paris, brings together the world leaders in sustainability and accelerated computing to support the European Union’s AI infrastructure ambitions and its “InvestAI” initiative, which plans to mobilize a €200 billion investment in AI.

Leveraging its expertise in AI-ready infrastructure, sustainability, and grid coordination, Schneider Electric and NVIDIA are together responding to the European Commission’s “AI Continent Action Plan,” which outlines a shared mission to set up at least 13 AI factories across Europe, while establishing up to five AI gigafactories.

“Schneider Electric and NVIDIA are not just partners — our teams are driving advanced R&D, co-developing the infrastructure needed to power the next wave of AI factories globally,” said Olivier Blum, CEO of Schneider Electric. “Together, we’ve seen tremendous success in deploying next-generation power and liquid cooling solutions, purpose-built for AI data centers. This strategic partnership — bringing together the world leaders in sustainability and accelerated computing — allows us to further accelerate this momentum, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible for the AI workloads of tomorrow.” 

“AI is the defining technology of our time—the most transformative force reshaping our world,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, NVIDIA. “Together with Schneider Electric, we are building AI factories: the essential infrastructure that brings AI to every company, industry, and society.”

New NVIDIA-Enabled Infrastructure Solutions

In support of today’s announcement, Schneider Electric has also unveiled a suite of AI-ready data center solutions, including new EcoStruxure Pod and Rack Infrastructure. Designed to accelerate AI developments globally, the Prefabricated Modular EcoStruxure Pod Data Center is a scalable, pod-based architecture, enabling rapid AI data center deployment.

As part of this, a new Schneider Electric Open Compute Project (OCP) inspired rack system has also been developed to support the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform that uses the NVIDIA MGX modular architecture, integrating Schneider Electric into NVIDIA HGX and MGX ecosystems for the first time.

These announcements build on a series of milestones shared by the two global leaders earlier this year, including Schneider Electric and ETAP unveiling the world’s first digital twin for electrical and large-scale power systems in AI factories using the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint.

Together, Schneider Electric and NVIDIA have also co-developed a series of full electrical and liquid cooling-based reference designs as an approved CDU vendor for NVIDIA, many of which also include solutions from Motivair’s liquid cooling portfolio, following its acquisition by Schneider Electric in March 2025.  

Through this expanded and deepened strategic partnership, Schneider Electric and NVIDIA will continue to accelerate their infrastructure initiatives, fast-tracking new product rollouts and reference designs to build the AI factories of the future.

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INDIA: Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced that its Hyderabad, India, factory has been recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Sustainability Lighthouse.

This is the third such recognition for Schneider Electric, whose factories in Lexington, Kentucky, and Le Vaudreuil factory, France, received Sustainability Lighthouse status in 2021 and 2022, respectively.

The World Economic Forum began the Global Lighthouse Network initiative in 2018 to recognize manufacturers leading the growth of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). The network now consists of more than 150 Advanced Lighthouses worldwide. Just 17 of these are also Sustainability Lighthouses which are recognized by the Forum for their technology-enabled improvements on environmental footprint. Together, these serve to showcase best practices of how companies can leverage 4IR solutions to unlock new levels of sustainability and efficiency in their operations.

Schneider Electric’s Hyderabad factory manufactures mission-critical electrical equipment and operates with an advanced, cloud-based manufacturing system powered by IoT-enabled devices, leveraging real-time data and predictive analytics for smart decision-making processes. Over four years, the plant reduced its energy consumption by 59%, improved waste optimization by 64%, decreased CO2 emissions by 61%, and reduced water consumption by 57%.

To improve energy efficiency and thereby reduce CO2 emissions, the Hyderabad team focused on the highest energy consumers in the plant: air compressors and chillers. An IoT-enabled device, Equalizer 4.0, was installed to regulate the compressors thereby improving their efficiency. To the chillers, a data-driven energy management system with closed-loop control was fitted to constantly monitor and adjust energy consumption in real-time, optimizing energy efficiency.

“Sustainability is core to our mission and purpose,” said Mourad Tamoud, Schneider Electric’s Chief Supply Chain Officer. “Our Hyderabad factory is a compelling case for why companies should invest in 4IR technologies at scale and pace – not just for the sustainability outcomes, but also for the operational efficiency gains.”

STRIVE Program

The Hyderabad factory is part of Schneider Electric’s global smart factory and distribution center initiative, encompassing nearly 250 factories and logistics centers in more than 40 countries. This initiative is part of the company’s STRIVE program.

STRIVE (Sustainable, Trusted, Resilient, Intelligent, Velocity, and Efficiency) is the next evolution of Schneider Electric’s supply chain transformation to be the most agile, innovative, planet and customer-centric supply chain.

• Sustainable – Schneider Electric is implementing projects to build carbon-neutral and circular supply chains whilst preserving local biodiversity.
• Trusted & Resilient – Schneider Electric strengthens its resilience through multi-sourcing and ensures there is no single point of failure in its production lines. Leveraging technology, we can create a highly personalized experience for our customers and ensure superior quality using an end-to-end view of its operations.
• Intelligent – Leveraging digital, Schneider Electric predicts, prevents, and automates for a highly flexible remotely orchestrated supply chain.
• Velocity & Efficiency – Schneider Electric leverages its strong regional presence, agile mindset, and supply partners.

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