What nVent makes for data centers
public · HQ London, United Kingdom · nvent.com
nVent makes rack enclosures, rack PDUs, and rack manifolds (CDMs) for AI server racks, along with in-rack and in-row coolant distribution units and rear-door heat exchangers for liquid cooling. It also supplies leak detection and flow sensing equipment under its RLE brand, circuit protection under its Erico brand, and cable tray under its Caddy brand.
Parts, by layer
Layer 4 — Servers, racks & integration
| Part | Role | Confidence | Competitors | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rack PDUs | manufacturer | inferred | Schneider Electric, Cyber Power, Delta Electronics, Eaton, Legrand, Vertiv | |
| Enclosures | manufacturer | inferred | Schneider Electric, Eaton, Legrand, Vertiv, Chatsworth, Panduit |
Layer 5 — Liquid cooling (IT-side: chip to CDU)
| Part | Role | Confidence | Competitors | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rack manifolds | manufacturer | disclosed | AVC, Auras, Delta Electronics, Foxconn (Hon Hai), Kaori, Parker Hannifin | |
| Coolant distribution units | manufacturer | inferred | Auras, Daikin, Delta Electronics, Envicool, Foxconn (Hon Hai), Johnson Controls | |
| Rear-door heat exchangers | manufacturer | inferred | Legrand, Vertiv, Coolcentric, Huawei, Motivair, Rittal | |
| Leak detection, flow & pressure sensing | manufacturer | inferred | Schneider Electric, Emerson, Honeywell, Keyence, Sensirion, Vertiv | RLE |
| Rack/row cooling controls & software | manufacturer | inferred | Schneider Electric, Vertiv, CoolIT, Motivair |
Layer 7 — Electrical: power distribution (grid to rack)
| Part | Role | Confidence | Competitors | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Circuit protection, fuses, surge, grounding | manufacturer | inferred | Schneider Electric, ABB, Bel Fuse, Eaton, Littelfuse, Mersen | Erico |
| Tray and supports | manufacturer | inferred | Atkore, Eaton, Legrand, Chatsworth, Hilti, Panduit |
Where nVent sits in the stack
nVent's placements in this catalog cover 9 parts, from layer 4 (servers, racks & integration) to layer 7 (electrical: power distribution (grid to rack)). None of them currently carries a sourced supply constraint tag. Across these parts it overlaps with other companies most often on the lines below.
What these parts are
- Enclosures — The rack cabinet frame itself — the enclosure that chassis and trays mount into, sold either as a standalone product or built in-house by the rack ODM.
- Rack PDUs — The power distribution units mounted in or beside a rack that meter and distribute power to individual devices, sitting between facility power and the rack's internal busbar or whips.
- Rack manifolds — The manifold (sometimes called a CDM) that distributes coolant from the CDU supply line to each cold plate in a rack and collects the return flow, usually mounted vertically at the rear or side of the rack.
- Coolant distribution units — The unit that separates the IT-side (technology) coolant loop from the facility water loop, exchanging heat between them and pumping and filtering the technology-side flow — sized from in-rack and in-row units up to multi-megawatt facility-class units.
- Rear-door heat exchangers — A heat exchanger mounted on the rear door of a server rack that cools exhaust air with chilled water or refrigerant before it leaves the rack, without cooling the chips directly.
- and 4 more in the table above.
Closest peers in this catalog
| Company | Shared parts | Including | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vertiv | 7 | Enclosures, Rack PDUs, Rack manifolds and 4 more | Compare → |
| Schneider Electric | 5 | Enclosures, Rack PDUs, Leak detection, flow & pressure sensing and 2 more | Compare → |
| Eaton | 4 | Enclosures, Rack PDUs, Circuit protection, fuses, surge, grounding and 1 more | Compare → |
| Legrand | 4 | Enclosures, Rack PDUs, Rear-door heat exchangers and 1 more | Compare → |
| Rittal | 4 | Enclosures, Rack PDUs, Coolant distribution units and 1 more | Compare → |
| Delta Electronics | 3 | Rack PDUs, Rack manifolds, Coolant distribution units | Compare → |
Seen in real machines
nVent is named in 1 of the rack teardowns and supercomputer breakdowns on this site. Each line below is a piece of that machine.
- Nvidia GB300 NVL72 · rack teardown
- Rack manifolds
- CDU (in-rack or in-row)
Disclosed customers
Latest feed
- Sponsored: Making every watt work — Data Center Dynamics, 2026-10-12nVent's David Wood discusses using real-time power intelligence to manage stranded data center capacity and optimize responsive infrastructure for AI.
Questions about nVent
- What does nVent make for AI data centers?
- This catalog places nVent on 9 parts: Rack PDUs (manufacturer), Rack manifolds (manufacturer), Coolant distribution units (manufacturer), Rear-door heat exchangers (manufacturer), Leak detection, flow & pressure sensing (manufacturer), Rack/row cooling controls & software (manufacturer), Circuit protection, fuses, surge, grounding (manufacturer) and Enclosures (manufacturer), and 1 more.
- Is nVent publicly traded?
- Yes — nVent is listed on US exchanges (NYSE/Nasdaq) under NVT. Prices shown on this page are a nightly snapshot, not real-time, and nothing here is investment advice.
- Where is nVent based?
- London, United Kingdom, per the company record in this catalog.
- Who else makes rack PDUs for AI data centers?
- Schneider Electric, Cyber Power, Delta Electronics, Eaton, Legrand and Vertiv are also placed on Rack PDUs in this catalog.
- How well sourced are these placements?
- Every part→company placement carries a confidence tag. For nVent the mix is 1 disclosed and 8 inferred. "disclosed" means the company or a filing says so; "reported" comes from trade press or a reference-design list; "inferred" is a lead from the taxonomy with no citation yet. Treat reported and inferred as leads, not facts.
Answers are generated from this catalog's own rows — see sources & method.
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