What Vertiv has released
Vertiv Holdings Co. introduced the Vertiv PowerStation 3100 RPP, a high-density remote power panel aimed at data centre racks with power densities above 100 kW. The company said the product is available now in North America.
Capacity on one platform
The panel supports 600 A, 800 A, 1,000 A and 1,200 A configurations from a single hardware platform built on a custom busbar architecture with molded case circuit breakers. Vertiv puts that at three to five times the capacity of traditional panelboard-based RPPs, and says racks above 100 kW can be served without custom engineering. The unit ships as a UL-891 listed assembly and is designed for both fully AC distribution and DC rack architectures.
Protection and rack-level isolation
Vertiv said four-wire designs delivering 415 V or 480 V to the rack can raise available fault current, and the unit's breakers carry higher short-circuit withstand and interrupting ratings to manage it. Each branch circuit breaker includes an integrated remote shunt trip, so a facility's leak detection system can cut power to a single rack when coolant leaks are detected, without shutting down neighbouring racks or the whole pod. Trip units can be switched between 60 A, 100 A and 150 A ratings within the same breaker frame, and integrated metering reports the position and trip status of every circuit.
Where it sits in a build
Kyle Keeper, senior vice president of Vertiv's power business unit, said new GPU generations are driving rack power demands higher and that customers need distribution infrastructure serving both current deployments and evolving architectures, Vertiv said in the announcement. The panel can be deployed on its own or integrated with Vertiv SmartRun and Vertiv OneCore, and forms the final power distribution stage before the rack in the company's power path for AI and HPC facilities.
