Vertiv is expanding manufacturing capacity across the Americas with four new or enlarged facilities aimed at data centre infrastructure, power systems, and integrated rack solutions for high-density AI workloads.
The company said two additional manufacturing sites in South Carolina will focus on infrastructure solutions intended to accelerate deployment timelines, including integrated power modules and the SmartRun prefabricated white-space platform. When fully ramped, Vertiv expects those South Carolina additions to lift regional capacity for those lines by roughly seven times. In Pennsylvania, the company has added capacity for cabinets with integrated cooling systems for AI data centre applications, while an expansion in Mexicali, Mexico is expected to raise regional output for power conversion, conditioning, and distribution products by about 45%.
Vertiv is tying the move directly to AI infrastructure demand and the industry’s growing emphasis on deployment speed. The company says its integrated power modules can reduce deployment time for power systems by up to 50% versus conventional builds, while SmartRun can cut on-site deployment time by as much as 85% by converging busway, liquid-cooling pipework, networking, and containment into a pre-engineered system.
Chief executive Giordano Albertazzi said AI is a long-term secular trend and described the expansion as part of a continuous capacity-planning model. The company’s order book suggests that is not marketing flourish. Vertiv reported sharp order growth heading into 2026, and the wider market keeps moving in the same direction as operators race to secure power, thermal management, and fit-out capacity for successive generations of AI hardware.
That race is increasingly industrial rather than purely digital. Data centres consumed roughly 415TWh of electricity in 2024, and hyperscale capacity has continued to rise worldwide. The limiting factor now is often the availability of power equipment, integrated cooling, and factory-built infrastructure that can arrive quickly enough to match compute procurement cycles. Vertiv’s latest manufacturing build-out is essentially a bet that the winners in AI infrastructure will be the suppliers that can industrialise delivery, not just design the kit.
