Data centres: Equipment and suppliers

Inside a rack holding 72 GPUs and drawing 132 kW

What this tab covers For each method, the main pieces of equipment, who makes them (by region) and what they are made of (bill of materials).

The critical equipment falls into power (UPS, power supplies), cooling (chillers, coolant distribution units) and IT (servers and accelerators).

UPS and power distribution⁶¹⁵

Keeps power clean and continuous; batteries bridge the gap until generators start

United States Vertiv, Eaton Europe Schneider Electric, Legrand

Bill of materials

Server power supply⁵

Converts AC to the DC used by the server

United States Bel Fuse

Bill of materials

Coolant distribution unit (CDU), cold plates and heat rejection¹²¹⁵

Pump coolant to chips, exchange heat with facility water and reject it outdoors

United States Vertiv Europe Schneider Electric

Bill of materials

AI accelerator rack (for example GB200 NVL72)⁹¹¹¹³

Runs AI training and inference; 72 GPUs and 36 CPUs in one liquid-cooled rack

United States Nvidia, AMD, Dell Technologies, Supermicro China IEIT Systems, Lenovo

Bill of materials

GPU packages: Silicon logic dies plus stacked high-bandwidth memory on a silicon interposer
Interconnect: Copper cable spine and switches
Power shelf: Rack-level AC-DC supplies feeding a DC busbar

General-purpose servers⁴⁹

Run cloud, web and enterprise workloads

United States Dell Technologies, HPE, Supermicro China Lenovo, IEIT Systems

Bill of materials