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Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 13, 2026Published at 2:13 AM EDT · New York
NVIDIA contributes Vera Rubin rack and compute-tray designs to the Open Compute Project, with a specification for racks up to 250 kW
The MGX 1.2 specification adds blind-mate liquid cooling and a 5,000-ampere busbar, and Meta will adopt NVIDIA's Spectrum-6 networking. That ties hyperscaler facility design more closely to NVIDIA's power and cooling limits.
At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose on October 12, NVIDIA contributed its Vera Rubin rack and compute-tray designs to OCP through its MGX modular server architecture, the company said on its blog. The MGX 1.2 specifi…
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