Vertiv and Caterpillar have come together for a joint announcement on a new strategic agreement to collaborate on advanced energy optimization solutions for data centers.
As operators look for more reliable on-site power in the AI era, both companies see the opportunity to blend Vertiv’s power distribution and cooling systems with Caterpillar’s and Solar Turbines’ generation technologies to create pre-designed architectures that simplify deployment, accelerate time-to-power, and improve end-to-end performance.
In practice, Caterpillar and Solar Turbines will handle the power generation side with natural gas turbines and reciprocating engines that deliver both electricity and thermal energy for CCHP, while Vertiv packages its power and cooling portfolio into modular building blocks that cut design cycles and streamline deployment. Together, the companies want to offer data centers an integrated solution with validated interfaces and predictable, tested performance.
For clients, they will be able to enjoy faster deployment through predesigned modular references, improved energy efficiency, and lower PUE thanks to tightly optimized power, cooling, and load management, and global lifecycle support backed by both companies’ service networks.
Vertiv CEO Gio Albertazzi said the partnership is a core piece of the company’s Bring Your Own Power & Cooling strategy and fits cleanly into its grid-to-chip framework by giving customers more resilient, on-site energy options that reduce or even eliminate reliance on the grid. And as Caterpillar Power & Energy group president Jason Kaiser pointed out, the surge in AI workloads is only making scalable power and cooling infrastructure more critical.
Overall, the MOU marks a meaningful step in shaping a more coordinated ecosystem for data center energy, giving operators a clearer path to overcoming power constraints and rolling out optimized AI-driven facilities.
