Dec 4 (Reuters) - French electrical equipment maker

Schneider Electric is working with Nvidia ( NVDA ) to

develop designs for data center cooling systems for use in new

artificial intelligence data centers, it said on Wednesday.

Schneider's designs will be used in data centres that use

Nvidia's ( NVDA ) flagship server containing 72 of its most powerful AI

chips, which is rolling out early next year. No financial

details of the agreement were disclosed.

Those servers will consume up to 132 kilowatts of power per

server rack, and the most powerful versions will require liquid

cooling to operate.

Nvidia's ( NVDA ) decision to switch most of its chip lineup to

liquid cooling has spurred a flurry of data center construction

and reconfiguration to accommodate the new chips.

Aparna Prabhakar, senior vice president of the secure power

division at Schneider, said the company worked with Nvidia ( NVDA ) to

design a range of cooling system options that can be scaled up

or down, depending on how many Nvidia ( NVDA ) servers are being

installed and how much power they consume.

The plans will be sold to cloud computing firms or data

center customers.

"It is heavy lifting on both sides," Prabhakar said of the

engineering effort. "We take care of everything which is outside

of the servers, and Nvidia ( NVDA ) is working on what's inside the

server."

Schneider, which last month replaced its CEO, has been

working to expand its AI data center business and in 2023 signed

a deal with Compass Datacenters to supply $3 billion of

electrical equipment over five years.