AVAIO Digital Partners has announced that it has signed an agreement with Schneider Electric to purchase switchgear, PDUs, UPSs and chillers in advance of starting construction at four new AI-ready data centre campuses across the United States (U.S.). This comes as AVAIO has also entered into an agreement with other long-lead equipment manufactures for generators and a separate partnerships to procure electrical gear.
The AVAIO-Schneider collaboration supports the integration of sophisticated data centre technologies, enhancing the reliability and efficiency of AVAIO’s facilities and setting the stage for AVAIO Digital’s expansion in the North American market.
Schneider Electric’s deep knowledge in AI load characterisation, combined with a track record in integrating renewable energy with traditional power generation, and utility connections are key elements of successful time-to-power project deployment, which enables large scale data centres to accelerate the rate at which they build out capacity. Schneider Electric’s products are made with sustainability in mind and adhere to EcoDesign principles, which allows customers to reduce embedded carbon and emissions from an operations perspective.
Beyond deployment, Schneider Electric’s implementation of condition-based maintenance models and data-driven predictive analytics ensures AVAIO’s infrastructure operates at peak performance throughout the entire lifecycle. This proactive strategy reduces both planned and unplanned downtime, extends equipment longevity, and lowers operational costs and risk at a systems level – not only on day one, but continuously over decades of data centre utilisation.
Mark McComiskey, the CEO at AVAIO Digital, said: “AVAIO has invested significantly in developing our new data centre campuses across the U.S. and is now ready to commence construction. Our partnership with Schneider Electric is a key component of our strategy to develop facilities that provide the next-generation power and cooling needed for successful AI and Cloud infrastructure deployments.
AVAIO is now well positioned to bring new data centre capacity online in 2026 to serve the growing compute needs of customers while benefiting the communities and local economies in which we operate. We are also investing in onsite, behind-the-meter utility-scale solar generation at several campuses, responding to the industry focus on powering their AI infrastructure needs directly from renewable sources.”
“Our collaboration with AVAIO Digital is focused on enabling customers to deploy their critical IT infrastructure rapidly at the heart of a new-generation of data centre campuses that uniquely address the needs of AI. We share a common vision of placing energy efficiency and reliability at the core of our approach to customers and look forward to deepening our collaboration as AVAIO’s footprint grows,” said Vandana Singh, the senior vice president of data centre business at Schneider Electric.
Joe Hubbard, the senior director of global design and delivery at AVAIO Digital, stated: “AVAIO Digital is excited to further its partnership with Schneider Electric to support the build out of next-generation infrastructure for AI and cloud customers in a highly sustainable way. This collaboration will enable AVAIO Digital to address the growing demand for large scale AI projects that have unique power and cooling requirements, with a focus on speed to market to meet customers’ increasing need for capacity.”
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