# Schneider Electric A French multinational corporation specializing in energy management and industrial automation, founded in 1836 and headquartered in Rueil-Malmaison, France. Trades on Euronext Paris as SU, with a market capitalization of approximately $176 billion as of mid-2026 and trailing twelve-month revenue of about $47 billion. Schneider Electric is one of the world's largest suppliers of data center physical infrastructure — UPS systems, power distribution, cooling, rack enclosures, and building management systems. The company's acquisition of APC (now branded APC by Schneider Electric) made it dominant in rack-level power protection, a category found in virtually every server room and data center on the planet. ## NVIDIA Partnership Schneider Electric has a deep strategic partnership with [[NVIDIA]] to develop reference designs for AI-ready data centers — what both companies call "AI factories." In March 2026, the partnership expanded to include validated reference designs for [[NVIDIA]]'s Vera Rubin architecture, integration of lifecycle digital twins within the NVIDIA Omniverse ecosystem, and early testing of agentic AI models (NVIDIA Nemotron) for data center alarm management. The collaboration targets gigawatt-scale AI factory deployments. ## EcoStruxure Platform Schneider's EcoStruxure platform provides IoT-enabled architecture for data center infrastructure management (DCIM) — monitoring power, cooling, and environmental conditions across facilities. This software layer is increasingly important as AI data centers push power densities that make manual management impractical. ## KB Relevance Schneider Electric is the European counterpart to Eaton in the "picks and shovels" layer of AI infrastructure. Its [[NVIDIA]] partnership positions it as a reference-design partner for the physical buildout described in [[The Quest for 90 Gigawatts]], and its global footprint means it touches AI data center construction on every continent. The company's scale — nearly $50 billion in annual revenue — makes it a bellwether for how much capital is flowing into [[Artificial Intelligence]] infrastructure worldwide. ## See Also - [[NVIDIA]] - [[Artificial Intelligence]] - [[The Quest for 90 Gigawatts]]