What was tested
CONFIRMED: Schneider Electric, AVEVA, Nscale and Start Campus announced in Berlin on October 21, 2026 one of the first pilots of an end-to-end digital twin for AI factories built with the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint, part of NVIDIA DSX Sim. The project is called Immersive Twin and was applied to a live operation, not only a demonstration environment.
Where the pilot runs
The pilot focuses on Nscale's operations at the SIN01 data centre within the SINES Data Campus in Portugal, developed by Start Campus. The campus has a planned capacity of 1.2 GW and, according to the announcement, will soon host more than 66,000 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs, one of the largest deployments of its kind in the region.
What the digital twin does
Built on OpenUSD, the Immersive Twin brings Schneider Electric, AVEVA and ETAP technologies, plus third-party technologies, into a single platform. In practice, it allows "what-if" testing for power, cooling and process behaviour before any physical change: validating a design, assessing the impact of an upgrade, reducing procurement risk and continuously optimising performance by linking IT and operational data.
According to the companies, the goal is twofold: to speed up time to token — the time until infrastructure starts producing AI tokens — and to improve token efficiency in operation. David Power, Nscale's chief technology officer, said the model gives a clearer view of where full-stack optimisations can be made before changes on site — a company STATEMENT about the expected benefit, not an independently measured operational result.
Why it matters
AI factories concentrate power consumption, liquid cooling, rack density and fast-changing workloads in one place. Simulating a rise in density through the power train and the liquid cooling loop before it exists, as Start Campus CEO Robert Dunn describes, can avoid rework and costly decisions. The pilot also builds on an earlier partnership between the companies and NVIDIA, including membership of the Alliance for OpenUSD and work on reference architectures for AI factories.
Fontes:
- AVEVA: Schneider Electric, AVEVA, Nscale e Start Campus levam o NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint para um ambiente real de fábrica de IA
- Engineering.com: Schneider Electric, AVEVA, Nscale e Start Campus testam gêmeo digital de IA
- GlobeNewswire via Morningstar: comunicado sobre o piloto do NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint
Image credit: view of the SINES campus, from Start Campus, in material released by the company via Business Wire. The image shows the campus where the pilot took place, not a screenshot of the digital twin.
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