BERLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 22, 2026--
Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA) and Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT) today announced a collaboration to enable AI factory infrastructure to be configured, simulated and validated before construction begins. By combining Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE agentic platform with Vertiv’s critical digital infrastructure expertise, the companies aim to reduce field complexity and accelerate the path from design kickoff to productive AI capacity for NVIDIA DSX AI factories.
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The collaboration builds on the Vertiv SmartRun configurable virtual twin and extends the model-based approach to broader Vertiv AI factory infrastructure solutions, including Vertiv OneCore. Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides the systems engineering, simulation and virtual twin capabilities to configure and validate Vertiv’s pre-engineered SimReady power and cooling reference designs for AI factories based on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design and NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint.
AI factories are highly coupled systems in which power, cooling, network, controls and compute must be engineered together, as changes in one domain can have significant downstream effects in others. This requires engineers to understand and validate how a complete infrastructure system will perform, before it is built and deployed.
Vertiv OneCore is a hybrid-built data center solution that integrates critical power, thermal management and supporting infrastructure. The 3DEXPERIENCE platform’s model-based systems engineering, simulation and virtual twin capabilities can represent Vertiv infrastructure as an integrated digital system, providing traceability and visibility into the impacts of design changes.
Using the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, Vertiv SimReady power and cooling assets become configurable system models that serve as the starting point for customer-specific AI factory configurations based on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design and NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint. Rather than creating a fixed design, the model-based approach enables engineers to evaluate configurations, propagate design changes across disciplines, perform system-level and multiphysics validation, and generate engineering deliverables from a common environment.
This approach advances engineering toward configurable, continuously co-designed and validated AI factory infrastructure that preserves design intent from early configuration through construction, commissioning and future technology upgrades.
Targeted customer outcomes include accelerating the path from requirements to a configured and validated AI factory solution by up to 10x and cutting the defined infrastructure deployment period by up to 50%. Under the assumptions in Vertiv’s model, the combined approach can bring capacity online approximately 10 weeks sooner than a modeled conventional baseline, producing up to 30% more cumulative token output within 12 months of project kickoff at the same installed capacity. The gain results solely from earlier facility readiness and does not reflect improved operating efficiency or a measured customer result.
“The winners in AI will be those who can turn computing capacity into productive capacity fastest,” said Scott Armul, Chief Product and Technology Officer. “That requires the entire AI factory to work as one system, across compute, power, cooling and physical infrastructure. By combining Vertiv’s pre-engineered infrastructure expertise with Dassault Systèmes’ model-based capabilities, we can configure and validate that system before construction, reduce complexity in the field and help customers bring AI capacity online faster.”
“AI factories are among the most complex engineered systems being built today. That complexity demands a systems view — modeled, simulated, orchestrated and optimized in a virtual twin, before the entire factory is built,” said Elisa Prisner, Executive Vice President, Strategy, Industry, Marketing and Transformation, Dassault Systèmes. “Together with Vertiv, we are transforming standardized infrastructure knowledge into configurable virtual twins for NVIDIA DSX AI factories. Our 3DEXPERIENCE platform allows customers to explore configurations, understand the consequences of design decisions, and validate the performance of an entire system virtually, before any infrastructure exists physically.”
At NVIDIA GTC Berlin, Oct. 20-22, the companies will showcase elements of the design and deployment approach, demonstrating how facility requirements inform infrastructure configuration, how teams can evaluate power and cooling constraints virtually, and how Vertiv applies factory-built infrastructure to accelerate physical deployment. The demonstration will bring together the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design and NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint, Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform and model-based systems engineering capabilities, and Vertiv SimReady power and cooling assets.
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About Dassault Systèmes
Dassault Systèmes is a catalyst for human progress. Since 1981, the company has pioneered virtual worlds to improve real life for consumers, patients and citizens. Through the 3DEXPERIENCE agentic platform, AI-powered, science-based virtual twins help 390,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, collaborate, imagine and create sustainable innovations that drive meaningful impact. For more information, visit: www.3ds.com
About Vertiv Holdings Co.
Vertiv Holdings Co. (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
Vertiv AI factory equipment data rendered in a virtual twin using Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Images Dassault Systèmes and Vertiv.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — After Ashley Hinson dropped off her boys at school earlier this month, she saw the initials “DJT” flash on her phone.
“'Ashley, it's your favorite president,'” Iowa's Republican nominee for U.S. Senate recently recounted to an audience of her supporters. “That's how he introduced himself.”
She had had a more forceful message about communicating with President Donald Trump on the debate stage with her Democratic opponent, Josh Turek, as she tried to win over undecided voters.
“I’ll be President Trump’s ally when it is important for Iowa, but I will push back on him,” promised Hinson, who currently serves in the U.S. House. “He knows this.”
Although many Republicans are walking a political tightrope in this year's midterm elections, Hinson's balancing act is more challenging than most. Iowans have been hamstrung by manufacturing job losses, health care clinic closures and shrunken farm profits since Trump returned to the White House, but Hinson also is relying on the president's loyalists to show up for her.
On Thursday, Hinson took the stage before Trump came on, at a rally in Sioux City, which is in Iowa's conservative northwest corner. The visit to safe territory is geared toward boosting turnout even as it ties her more tightly to an unpopular president.
To hundreds of Trump's supporters, Hinson played up her relationship with the president.
“I’m not sure, frankly, that he’s always happy when we’re talking because I ask him for a lot of things for Iowa when we’re on the phone,” she said. “And that’s exactly what you would expect me to do, right? As your next United States senator.”
Trump is expected to visit the state again Nov. 1. He is “anxious for Iowans to hear his message before they vote,” Iowa Republican Party Chair Jeff Kaufmann said in announcing the president's schedule.
Turek, a state lawmaker, was in Sioux City for a campaign event Tuesday and told reporters he was happy for Trump to visit to see how his tariffs and the Iran war have “hurt Iowa more than any other state.” Although Turek says he's willing to work with Trump on issues like immigration, he called Hinson a rubber stamp for the president's bad policies.
When Hinson kicked off her campaign last year, she touted Trump’s endorsement and said she was running to be Trump’s “top ally” in the Senate. Almost a year later, Hinson instead says she wants to be “Iowa’s best bipartisan fighter."
The message has crystallized since the summer, with more examples of Hinson vocalizing positions at odds with the president. Recent polling from late September and early October suggests it could work as she carves out about 1 in 10 voters who disapprove of the president even as she continues to secure overwhelming support from those who approve of Trump.
In August, she said Trump’s plan to increase beef imports from foreign countries in an attempt to lower prices was "a bad idea” that would hurt Iowa farmers.
Last month, two of Hinson's Iowa colleagues in the House broke with the White House and voted against Trump's ability to continue the war with Iran without congressional approval.
Hinson didn’t, but she said later the war has gotten too costly for Americans and called for Trump to bring the conflict to a “successful and immediate end.”
More recently, Hinson criticized Trump’s decision to ease sanctions on Russia in exchange for diesel fuel. She said Tuesday that the U.S. needs to make sure “dictators aren’t allowed to win wars.”
“I think the president and I share the goal of lowering costs for working families and for people who are using diesel,” she told reporters after a campaign event. “I, again, just don’t think we need to be making any deals with Russia.”
Hinson said she hadn’t talked with the president about the issue.
“Maybe I’ll have a chance to come have a conversation with him at the rally," she added.
Hinson isn't the only one pitching bipartisanship. So is Turek. In fact, he's the only Iowa candidate seeking federal office who explicitly mentions Trump in general election television advertisements, according to an Associated Press analysis of AdImpact data.
In one, Turek is behind the wheel speaking directly to a camera about Interstate 35, which “connects Iowa to the southern border and the broken immigration system that both parties have failed to fix." He says: “In the U.S. Senate, I’ll work with anyone to fix it, including President Trump, to secure the border, stop the flow of drugs into Iowa.”
Turek has pushed back on the president’s policies, including tariffs and the war in Iran, as the catalysts of high costs that are hurting Iowans, but his message on working with the president on immigration and other select issues stands out from other Democrats. Republicans say he's just pretending to be a moderate to get elected.
Mazie Stilwell, executive director of the progressive organization Progress Iowa, said Turek's message on immigration targets a bloc of voters on an issue that's particularly important to them but doesn't overshadow his otherwise disciplined focus on the high costs facing Iowans.
Trump’s visit to the state Thursday, she added, is “a terrific reminder of the disaster that he has been and his administration has been for our bottom line, for everyday Iowans who are trying to make ends meet.”
Iowa is no stranger to competitive Senate races even though Trump won the state by double digits in the last presidential election.
Ad spending on broadcast and cable television has already surpassed $200 million this cycle, AdImpact shows. But in today’s dollars, the total ad spending in the 2020 Senate race was even higher.
Republicans have spent slightly more for Hinson than Democrats for Turek. That was the opposite in 2020, when Democrats spent nearly $30 million more than the GOP did in their unsuccessful effort to unseat Sen. Joni Ernst.
Iowa Republican activist Kelley Koch has been concerned that complacency will dampen turnout from conservatives, even those who are loyal to the president.
"They say, ‘Why are you all hyped up about the midterms, Kelley, Trump will take care of everything,'” Koch said.
It’s an assumption she’s working to counteract, and she expects “the Trump effect” from his visits will help protect Republican majorities in the House and Senate.
And while Koch supports Hinson, she doesn’t like it when she talks about pushing back on Trump.
“Right now,” Koch said, “we had better unite around our president.”
Associated Press reporter Aaron Kessler in Washington contributed.
Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, speaks to supporters, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, in Ankeny, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
