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Nvidia contributes Vera Rubin rack designs to OCP

Nvidia said the MGX 1.2 specification supports rack deployments up to 250 kW.

  1. Nvidia Blog — OCP Global Summit: Vera Rubin and scale AI factories (Oct. 12, 2026)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, in glasses and a black leather jacket, sits in a classroom.
FILE: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Photo: Anderseidesvik / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped)

Nvidia and the Open Compute Project: Nvidia said Monday it contributed key Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to the Open Compute Project through its open MGX architecture. The updated MGX 1.2 specification adds rack-scale blind-mate liquid cooling and a liquid-cooled 5,000-amp busbar, and supports rack deployments up to 250 kW, the company said. Meta is adopting Nvidia’s Spectrum-6 102.4 Tb/s Ethernet switches to build larger Vera Rubin AI factories, according to Nvidia.

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