Schneider Electric Unveils RapidScale Reference Design 115 for NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI Factories

Schneider Electric announced the RapidScale Modular Data Center Reference Design 115 on October 21, 2026, a pre-engineered blueprint for high-density AI infrastructure built to support the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. Stock Titan reported the launch.

Schneider Electric's RapidScale Design 115

The design combines power, liquid cooling, IT, software and lifecycle services into a repeatable delivery model, and RapidScale incorporates approximately 90% in-house manufactured equipment. Schneider Electric estimates global data center capacity will increase by 170 GW by 2030, reaching 300 GW in total, or 2.3 times the 2025 installed base, with AI workloads expected to account for approximately 65% of total demand by the end of the decade.

A research paper co-authored with hyperscale developer Compass Datacenters, "Prefabricated White Space Module Time Study: Lessons from a High-Density Liquid-Cooled Deployment" (White Paper 238), found that prefabricated modular pods shorten onsite installation time from 75.5 hours to 15 hours per pod, an 80% reduction. The study was performed at a Compass hyperscale data center campus. Compass Datacenters filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation in September 2026 to add three more buildings to its Red Oak campus, as reported by Datacenterdynamics.

"The white space brings together the greatest concentration of systems and trades in the smallest footprint, with each installation dependent on the one before it," said Adil Attlassy, Chief Technology Officer of Compass Datacenters. "Working jointly with Schneider Electric, we engineered a prefabricated module that integrates these systems into a single assembly, eliminating the need to coordinate multiple scopes of work onsite."

"As AI infrastructure scales at unprecedented speed, customers need solutions that are standardized, reliable, and deployable with certainty," said Manish Kumar, Executive Vice President, Secure Power & Data Centers at Schneider Electric.

Schneider Electric's AI Infrastructure Funding

Schneider Electric's manufacturing capacity has grown fourfold since 2025, according to company records, spanning eight primary sites totaling 1.35 million square feet, three additional facilities and 12 partner sites across 10 countries. The same records show a $6.7 billion post-IPO equity round in October 2026 and a $19 billion post-IPO debt round in October 2026 led by Morgan Stanley and Societe Generale.

Earlier Schneider Electric Data Center Work

In June 2026, Schneider Electric delivered over $290 million in AI infrastructure solutions for TeraWulf's Lake Mariner data centre campus, combining Schneider power systems, Motivair liquid cooling and digital monitoring, according to akta.pro company records. In October 2026, Schneider Electric partnered with Greenly to strengthen its Decarbonization Champion program for small and medium-sized companies in its electrical value chain, MarketScreener reported. Budderfly announced $500 million in project capital to help U.S. municipalities modernize energy infrastructure, partnering with Schneider Electric, Business Wire Blog reported in October 2026.

Schneider Electric's Validation and Showcase Plans

The modular reference design has been validated to ANSI standards for U.S. deployments, with plans to extend the framework to support IEC standards for global implementations. Schneider Electric will showcase the design and its RapidScale portfolio at NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 at booth 3041.