NVIDIA DSX Ready: How Prequalified Power and Cooling Gear Lowers AI Factory Risk

NVIDIA’s DSX Ready program is meant to make a difficult AI-infrastructure purchasing decision more concrete: whether the power and cooling equipment selected for a large AI factory fits the broader computing architecture. Launched September 21, 2026, the program qualifies partner products against applicable NVIDIA DSX reference-design requirements, helping customers identify compatible building blocks for design, construction and operations. 529

What DSX Ready qualifies

DSX is NVIDIA’s platform and reference-design approach for building AI factories, combining accelerated-computing systems with software, APIs, partner technologies and facility infrastructure. 38 DSX Ready extends that approach to two essential facility categories at launch:

• Battery energy storage systems (BESS) for the power side of an AI-factory buildout
• Coolant distribution units (CDUs) for liquid-cooling infrastructure 21

The qualification is useful because these systems must interface with a highly power-dense, liquid-cooled computing environment. A product that meets the relevant DSX requirements is a more clearly defined procurement option than an unqualified component. That can reduce the risk of discovering a design mismatch late in engineering or construction.

It does not certify an entire data-center deployment. Developers still need site-specific engineering for utility supply, interconnection, electrical protection, controls, water and cooling design, permitting, safety, commissioning and operational resilience.

The launch partners

NVIDIA’s initial DSX Ready cohort included three companies in each category:

Category	Initial DSX Ready partners
Battery energy storage systems	Hitachi Energy, LG Energy Solution, Tesla
Coolant distribution units	LG Electronics, LiquidStack, Vertiv

The launch roster was reported September 22 following NVIDIA’s September 21 introduction of the program. 21

The cooling requirement signals the scale of the target installations. Reporting on the program says DSX Ready CDUs must provide at least 2.3 MW of cooling capacity; LG Electronics’ approved CDU is rated at 2.5 MW. 1718

How LG Energy Solution qualified

LG Energy Solution said its BESS qualified as DSX Ready through the JF2 AC LINK, a high-capacity AC energy-storage solution based on lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries. 5 The company’s JF2 AC/DC LINK family is designed for the North American market, supports either AC or DC output configurations, and stores up to 5.1 MWh of energy. 14

For an AI-factory developer, a qualified BESS is relevant because energy storage can be designed into a broader strategy for backup power, power-quality support, and management of large changes in facility demand. The actual capability and value depend on the site’s electrical architecture, utility agreement, storage sizing, controls and operating plan; the DSX Ready designation alone does not establish those outcomes.

Why local manufacturing could matter to AI-data-center buyers

Technical qualification is only one part of infrastructure risk. Large projects also depend on whether a vendor can manufacture, integrate, deliver and support equipment on schedule.

LG Energy Solution began operations at its Lansing, Michigan facility in 2026, bringing its North American ESS manufacturing footprint to five production sites. The Lansing operation is described as producing both LFP batteries for ESS and nickel-based ternary batteries for electric vehicles. 1012

The company has also said it is on track for a 50 GWh-plus U.S. ESS production target. 16 If that capacity is realized and available for new orders, it could help the company serve several large infrastructure projects without relying entirely on overseas supply chains. Local cell and system production may also simplify logistics, spare-parts planning and supply visibility—but those benefits remain project-specific and depend on production execution and existing customer commitments.

Incentives require project-by-project verification

Domestic manufacturing can affect project economics when a storage project satisfies the applicable U.S. tax-credit and domestic-content rules. However, those rules are not automatic merely because equipment is assembled in the United States.

Industry reporting on the current framework says projects must meet local-sourcing thresholds for ESS components to access incentives that can include a base credit and a domestic-content bonus; the reported threshold rises from 50% to 55% in 2027. 16 Developers should therefore confirm current law, construction-start timing, component sourcing and documentation with tax and legal advisers before including an incentive in a project model.

The practical takeaway

DSX Ready is best understood as a risk-reduction layer for AI-factory procurement. It identifies BESS and CDU products that meet applicable DSX reference-design requirements, narrowing the integration work required to fit power and cooling equipment into a NVIDIA-oriented facility design. 521

LG Energy Solution’s position combines that qualification with an LFP-based AC storage product and a growing North American manufacturing footprint. That combination may improve its competitiveness in U.S. AI infrastructure—but it is not a replacement for full site design, delivery diligence or incentive verification.