NVIDIA and Emerald AI Partner with Major Energy Companies to Develop Flexible AI Factories that Integrate with Power Grids
NVIDIA and Emerald AI announced a collaboration with major energy companies to develop flexible AI factories that integrate with power grids. This initiative aims to drive AI innovation and build a more reliable power system in the United States.
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CERAWeek 2026 — NVIDIA and Emerald AI announced that they are collaborating with AES, Constellation, Invenergy, NextEra Energy, Nscale Energy & Power, and Vistra to advance a new class of AI factories that accelerate connection to the grid, generate valuable AI tokens and intelligence, and function as flexible energy assets that can support the grid.
This collaboration brings together leaders in technology, energy, and infrastructure, demonstrating how companies can come together across industries to drive AI innovation in the United States while building a more reliable power system for the American people.
These next-generation AI factories will utilize the new NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory Reference Design. This reference design includes the DSX Flex software library for connecting AI factories to grid services.
To accelerate deployment, these AI factories will leverage co-located generation and storage facilities as bridge power for hybrid AI factories, which can later use these resources to flexibly supply power to the grid, accelerating grid interconnection for AI factories and supporting the broader power system. This approach helps bring AI online faster while creating a wide range of value for customers and communities.
The DSX reference architecture also enables larger and faster grid connections while supporting flexible AI factories without the need for co-located energy resources.
Emerald AI's Conductor platform coordinates computing flexibility with on-site generation, battery storage, and other behind-the-meter resources to provide precise, grid-responsive power flexibility while ensuring quality of service for AI computing tenants. This coordination helps operators achieve power goals, protect priority workloads, reduce bridge power usage time, and support larger and faster grid interconnections, as well as reduce the need to design infrastructure for peak demand, thereby alleviating the burden on future system costs.
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This collaboration brings together leaders in technology, energy, and infrastructure, demonstrating how companies can come together across industries to drive AI innovation in the United States while building a more reliable power system for the American people.
These next-generation AI factories will utilize the new NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory Reference Design. This reference design includes the DSX Flex software library for connecting AI factories to grid services.
To accelerate deployment, these AI factories will leverage co-located generation and storage facilities as bridge power for hybrid AI factories, which can later use these resources to flexibly supply power to the grid, accelerating grid interconnection for AI factories and supporting the broader power system. This approach helps bring AI online faster while creating a wide range of value for customers and communities.
The DSX reference architecture also enables larger and faster grid connections while supporting flexible AI factories without the need for co-located energy resources.
Emerald AI's Conductor platform coordinates computing flexibility with on-site generation, battery storage, and other behind-the-meter resources to provide precise, grid-responsive power flexibility while ensuring quality of service for AI computing tenants. This coordination helps operators achieve power goals, protect priority workloads, reduce bridge power usage time, and support larger and faster grid interconnections, as well as reduce the need to design infrastructure for peak demand, thereby alleviating the burden on future system costs.
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