AI Infrastructure & Data Centers

Columbus, Ohio – October 13, 2026 -- Vertiv Holdings Co. has agreed to acquire microgrid specialist Utility Innovation Holdings, operating as UtilityInnovation Group (UIG), for about $1.45 billion in cash at closing, plus up to $1.15 billion in additional cash tied to EBITDA targets over 12- and 24-month periods.

Vertiv's wholly-owned subsidiary, Vertiv Corporation, signed the merger agreement. If the full earnout is paid, total consideration could reach $2.6 billion.

Vertiv prices UIG at about 13x expected 2027 EBITDA

At the $1.45 billion upfront price, the deal values UIG at roughly 13x its expected 2027 EBITDA. Vertiv expects that multiple to be significantly lower if the full earnout is paid. The company expects the acquisition to be accretive to adjusted earnings per share in the first year after completion.

Columbus, Ohio – October 13, 2026 -- Vertiv's 2.3 MW CoolChip coolant distribution unit (CDU) has qualified as a NVIDIA DSX Ready CDU, making it the first CDU to qualify specifically under the program, the company said.

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) is among the initial providers of qualified CDU solutions in NVIDIA DSX Ready. The program lets AI factory builders identify power and cooling products that meet applicable NVIDIA DSX requirements.

Qualification rests on NVIDIA's CDU self-qualification suite

For CDU providers, the program uses the NVIDIA CDU self-qualification suite to determine whether a specific offering meets applicable functional requirements. NVIDIA DSX Ready connects individual products to those requirements.

The qualification does not replace site-specific engineering. Customers must still determine how a qualified product fits their facility design, system configuration and operating requirements.

Columbus, Ohio – October 13, 2026 -- Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE: VRT) has agreed to acquire King Environmental Services Ltd. (KES), a Europe-based provider of fluid management, commissioning and load-testing services for high-density, liquid-cooled data centers, with closing expected in the fourth quarter of 2026.

Vertiv did not disclose financial terms. The company said the deal is not expected to be material to its financial results.

KES brings fluid management and load testing to Vertiv's EMEA services

The acquisition extends Vertiv's thermal management services into Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). KES is headquartered near Dublin, Ireland, and serves customers across the region.

Columbus – October 13, 2026 -- Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT) has appointed Stellantis manufacturing executive Michael Resha as Executive Vice President of Manufacturing, Logistics and Operational Excellence, effective immediately. He succeeds Anders Karlborg as the critical digital infrastructure supplier scales operations to meet demand driven by AI and high-density computing.

Resha takes charge of capacity expansion and capital deployment

Resha reports to CEO Giordano Albertazzi and joins the executive leadership team. He leads Vertiv's global manufacturing, logistics and operational excellence organization. His remit covers scaling global manufacturing operations, expanding capacity, optimizing capital deployment and aligning operational execution with the company's long-term growth strategy.

He will also continue the deployment and adoption of the Vertiv Operating System (VOS).

Columbus – October 13, 2026 -- Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) named 11 channel partners as 2025 North America Partner Award recipients, with World Wide Technology (WWT) taking the top Partner of the Year honor for year-over-year growth and continued investment in joint AI strategy. Winners were selected on 2025 results, growth trajectory and customer impact.

WWT wins top award on AI factory deployments

WWT's successful AI factory deployments and the integration of Vertiv technologies into its Advanced Technology Center accelerated AI solution innovation and deepened customer engagement, according to Vertiv. Alex Johnson, Vice President, North America Channel Sales, said demand for "high-density, AI-ready environments" is growing and partners are helping customers deploy scalable infrastructure faster.

San Jose – October 13, 2026 -- Wiwynn unveiled a 6kW double-sided cold plate that it says cuts power delivery loss by up to 80%, alongside AI rack platforms for NVIDIA and AMD and a co-packaged optics (CPO) rack, at the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose.

Wiwynn joins NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 pilot build program

Wiwynn and Wistron are among the first NVIDIA Pilot Build Partners for the Vera Rubin NVL72 platform, covering engineering validation and design-in. The liquid-cooled, rack-scale system integrates 72 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and 36 NVIDIA Vera CPUs with 6th-generation NVIDIA NVLink.

Wiwynn is also applying its rack integration and manufacturing capabilities to AMD's Helios rackscale solution, built on the Open Rack Wide (ORW) standard. Helios combines AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, 6th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs, AMD Pensando networking and AMD ROCm software, with configurations tailored to cloud service provider (CSP) requirements.

San Jose – October 13, 2026 -- d-Matrix has launched Squadron, a fleet of multi-rack inference systems that scale to 1,024 interconnected Corsair XPUs and deliver megawatts of compute for latency-sensitive AI workloads. The systems are shipping to priority customers, and the underlying Corsair servers and SquadRacks are now generally available.

Squadron clusters scale to 16 racks and run on air cooling

A Squadron cluster combines up to 16 SquadRacks, each a single rack holding eight servers. Clusters are interconnected with d-Matrix JetStream NICs and managed with Aviator software.

The systems are air-cooled and built on industry standards. d-Matrix says customers can install them in existing data centers without liquid cooling or major buildouts. Customers can start with a single Corsair server, move to a full SquadRack, or scale to a multi-rack cluster on the same architecture.

San Jose – October 13, 2026 -- Wistron Corporation and Wiwynn Corporation say they are among the first manufacturers ready to build NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale platform, which unifies 72 Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs in a fully liquid-cooled design. The two companies are showing the system at the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose under the theme "Create AI Beyond Limits."

Vera Rubin NVL72 combines 72 GPUs, 36 CPUs and BlueField-4 DPUs

The NVL72 platform links 72 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and 36 NVIDIA Vera CPUs through NVIDIA NVLink. It also integrates NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNICs and NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs. Wistron and Wiwynn describe it as built for the resiliency, energy efficiency and scalability that AI factories demand, and optimized for frontier AI model training, inference and reasoning.

Pune – October 13, 2026 -- The global market for data center racks drawing more than 100 kW is forecast to grow from USD 37.2 billion in 2025 to USD 52.5 billion by 2034, a 3.5% CAGR, according to a new Credence Research Inc. report.

AI training and inference, accelerated computing and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads are driving demand. They require substantially more rack-level power and cooling than conventional enterprise infrastructure. Direct-to-chip liquid cooling, rear-door heat exchangers, immersion-ready enclosures and higher-capacity power distribution are becoming core design considerations for new deployments.

Rochester, N.Y. – October 13, 2026 -- Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ: VUZI) has demonstrated 19,200 parallel optical pathways across an approximately 30 mm optical path on its Vuzix Causeway waveguide evaluation platform, and is now offering evaluation units to qualified partners exploring optical interconnects for AI data centers.

Vuzix Causeway routes thousands of optical channels through a compact substrate

The platform applies proprietary waveguide technology to route thousands of parallel optical pathways through a compact substrate. Vuzix targets co-packaged optics (CPO), near-package optics (NPO) and AI computing applications. Future communications implementations are projected to support multi-terabit aggregate bandwidth, subject to source, detector and system integration performance.

Waveguide structures can be tailored to source wavelength and illumination approach for custom architectures using microLED or VCSEL sources.