Vertiv's PowerStation 3100 Targets 100 kW-Plus AI Racks

Vertiv launched the PowerStation 3100 remote power panel on November 13, 2026, built for AI and high-performance computing racks pulling more than 100 kW — and it ships immediately in North America.

The panel handles 600 A, 800 A, 1,000 A and 1,200 A configurations on a single hardware platform. That's the headline for operators scrambling to feed GPU racks whose power demands keep climbing. Vertiv claims the custom busbar and molded-case circuit breakers deliver three to five times the capacity of traditional panelboard-based remote power panels.

"As new GPU generations drive higher rack power demands, customers need distribution infrastructure that supports both current deployments and evolving architectures," said Kyle Keeper, senior vice president of Vertiv's Power Business Unit.

Why the last electrical hop got hard

The PowerStation 3100 sits at the final distribution stage before electricity reaches the rack. Two forces made the old kit inadequate, according to Vertiv.

Four-wire delivery at 415 V or 480 V raises available fault current, which means more short-circuit protection is needed at rack level. Direct liquid cooling adds a second problem: a coolant leak may demand immediate power isolation for a single rack without taking down its neighbors. Vertiv says traditional panelboard-based RPPs weren't designed for those combined demands.

The takeaway: AI racks changed both the electrical and the thermal risk profile at the same distribution point.

What does the protection stack actually do?

Vertiv's documentation specifies a 100%-rated main breaker with a 65 kA interrupting capacity and no full-load derating, plus room for up to 22 three-pole branch breakers. Higher short-circuit withstand and interrupting ratings are meant to cut the need for separate fault-current mitigation equipment.

Each branch breaker carries a remote shunt trip. When a facility's leak-detection system senses a leak, it can disconnect only the affected rack; adjacent racks and the wider pod stay energized. Because the accessory sits inside the breaker, the enclosure doesn't grow.

Adjustable trip units add flexibility: operators can switch among 60 A, 100 A and 150 A ratings within the same branch-breaker frame. No breaker replacement needed when rack power demands change — standardization now extends down to the branch level.

Metering, mounting and the physical footprint

The enclosure measures 90 by 38 by 16 inches and weighs 814 pounds across the ratings range. Design details aimed at dense deployments:

• Front-only service access, eliminating rear clearance
• Top cable entry for raised floors or slabs
• Side-by-side, back-to-back, wall or standalone mounting
• A common frame across all four ratings, simplifying procurement and spare-parts management

Vertiv says its integrated Liebert DPM metering delivers 0.5% accuracy at input and branch-circuit levels, using an individual current transformer on every branch — measurements that support tenant billing and energy-data collection. A nine-inch color touchscreen shows a one-line electrical diagram, breaker status, equipment loads and power-quality data. Native Modbus, SNMP and BACnet communication links the panel to building and electrical power management systems.

The product brochure also lists a log of up to 1,000 events at 1 ms precision, plus optional event-triggered waveform capture with network-synchronized timestamps. Configuration export and import lets operators transfer site-specific settings between units, trimming repeated setup work across large deployments.

Who buys this, and what does it replace?

Vertiv is aiming the product at neocloud operators, cloud service providers, multi-tenant colocation facilities, and enterprise AI and HPC installations. The RPP runs standalone or integrates with SmartRun, which combines power and thermal management in a pre-configured system, or OneCore, Vertiv's scalable factory-built data center offering that bundles power, cooling and IT infrastructure. It also supports both AC power distribution and DC rack architectures, letting operators standardize across deployment types.

The practical significance is consolidation at the last electrical stage before the rack: higher-capacity distribution, selective isolation and revenue-grade measurement combined in one repeatable product, replacing stacked conventional panels or project-specific switchgear across rows and campuses.