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Vertiv
Power & cooling vendor riding AI capex: $8.5B record backlog, NVIDIA 360AI GB300 reference partner
HQ US
Recent Business Signals
Jun 3, 2026
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Vertiv Holdings Co's Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.0625 per share of Class A common stock.
source: sec_edgar
Apr 22, 2026
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We expect to have capital expenditures (including capitalized software) of $425.0 to $525.0 for the full year 2026 in order to support capacity expansion across the business.
source: sec_edgar_capex
Mar 18, 2026
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Customer: NVIDIA reference architecture
Vertiv Liebert XDU and rear-door heat exchanger products were named in NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 reference architecture, deployed at multiple hyperscaler GB200 sites.
source: customer_wins_seed
Strategic Position
What they do best
Delivering mission-critical power+thermal at frontier AI-rack density — productized 360AI reference architectures for NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 at ~142 kW/rack (signal 0a8f1612).
Their bet
That 800 VDC becomes the standard for 1 MW+ Rubin-class AI racks (signal 7c05d0c4), and that owning orchestration software (Waylay, 823ac77c) plus North American rack capacity (Great Lakes, 1d8de43f) locks in hyperscaler share.
Top risk
If reported backlog in Q1–Q2 2026 earnings falls below the Q3 2025 record ~$8.5B (book-to-bill <1.0), the AI-capex demand thesis underpinning the raised ~$10B FY2025 guidance is directly falsified.
Forward view
Derived from public capacity & product announcements — not a company-authored roadmap.
capacity expansion · Apr 22, 2026
We expect to have capital expenditures (including capitalized software) of $425.0 to $525.0 for the full year 2026 in order to support capacity expansion across the business.
Compared to peers
Direct competitor
Schneider Electric
Schneider's APC/EcoStruxure covers the same rack-to-utility chain but already leads on integrated energy/infra software — the gap Vertiv is only now closing via the Waylay buy.
Substitute
Bloom Energy
Bloom's behind-the-meter fuel cells bypass 5–7yr grid-interconnect queues, displacing the utility-fed power Vertiv conditions rather than competing head-on in UPS/PDU.
Why someone would join
- 1.Demand is contractually visible, not speculative: Q3 2025 record backlog ~$8.5B and FY2025 guidance raised toward ~$10B (29% YoY growth) — power/UPS roadmaps are funded years out (signal c763ccd4).
- 2.Work directly on NVIDIA's frontier roadmap: named 800 VDC ecosystem partner for 1 MW+ racks (May 2025) and shipping 360AI designs for GB300 NVL72 at ~142 kW/rack (signal 0a8f1612), aligned to Rubin 2027.
Recent Hiring (60 days)
- UPS systems1
- battery systems1
- commissioning1
- busway1
- power distribution1