Schneider Electric RapidScale modular AI data center design targets NVIDIA Vera Rubin

Schneider Electric has introduced RapidScale Modular Data Center Reference Design 115, a prefabricated reference design aimed at modular “AI factory” builds and engineered to support the NVIDIA Vera Rubin Platform. The company describes the design as a validated, pre-engineered blueprint intended to streamline onsite logistics and planning for high-density AI deployments.

Schneider Electric says the reference design pairs Vera Rubin infrastructure with liquid cooling and temperature controls intended to support high compute density while managing overheating risk and energy use. The broader RapidScale approach combines power, liquid cooling, IT, software, and lifecycle services into a modular architecture meant to replace one-off custom engineering with repeatable, pre-tested building blocks.

For data center builders dealing with high-density GPU clusters, the practical appeal of prefabricated “white space” isn’t aesthetics, it’s schedule control. When power distribution, cooling distribution, and integration work can be shifted into a factory environment, onsite work tends to compress into fewer trades, fewer dependencies, and fewer sequencing failures that burn time during commissioning.

Time study: 80% reduction in onsite installation hours per pod

Alongside the reference design, Schneider Electric and Compass Datacenters published a time study focused on prefabricated white space modules used in a high-density, liquid-cooled deployment. The paper, “Prefabricated White Space Module Time Study: Lessons from a High-Density Liquid-Cooled Deployment” (White Paper 238), reports that at a Compass hyperscale data center campus, onsite installation time per pod fell from 75.5 hours to 15 hours—an 80% reduction—when using prefabricated modular pods.

“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,” said Adil Attlassy, Chief Technology Officer of Compass Datacenters. “By reducing onsite installation time by 80%, we accelerate deployment and help our customers bring their workloads online sooner.”

Manufacturing footprint and standards scope

Schneider Electric says RapidScale incorporates about 90% Schneider Electric-manufactured equipment, and that its manufacturing capacity has grown fourfold since 2025. The company also lists a footprint of eight primary sites totaling 1.35 million square feet of capacity, plus three additional facilities and 12 partner sites across 10 countries.

The modular reference design is validated to ANSI standards for US deployments, and Schneider Electric says it plans to extend the framework to support IEC standards for future global implementations.

Schneider Electric did not provide availability or pricing details for the reference design in the materials released.