Nvidia announces reference design for colossal gigawatt-scale Omniverse DSX data centers — single data center requires a nuclear reactor’s worth of power generation

Nvidia used to be a humble supplier of graphics processors, providing reference designs for its partners’ graphics cards. As the company grew, it moved from data center-grade GPUs for AI and HPC to reference designs for servers, then to rack-scale solutions. At its GTC 2025 summit, the company announced Omniverse DSX Blueprint: a reference design for gigawatt-class AI data centers, or what Nvidia calls AI factories.

The Omniverse DSX is Nvidia’s blueprint for gigawatt-scale data centers, purpose-built…