Rack thermal envelope
Legacy basis
30–60 kW air-cooled
Rubin-era basis
≥ 120 kW direct-to-chip
Consequence · Rear-door and CRAH-only halls cannot absorb the heat flux. Plant interface moves upstream.
Plan Rubin-era AI data centers with a unified engine for electrical sizing, liquid cooling, layout, validation, and export-ready engineering evidence.
Schematic only · power and cooling decoupled at the CDU; secondary loop sized to per-rack thermal profile.
01 · WHY THIS EXISTS
The legacy AI data center workflow — siloed Excel sheets for electrical, separate decks for cooling, a layout drawn after both — was tuned for a 30–60 kW rack and air as the primary heat-transport medium. Rubin-class GPUs and ≥ 120 kW racks invalidate the assumptions underneath that workflow, not just the numbers on top.
Rack thermal envelope
Legacy basis
30–60 kW air-cooled
Rubin-era basis
≥ 120 kW direct-to-chip
Consequence · Rear-door and CRAH-only halls cannot absorb the heat flux. Plant interface moves upstream.
MV distribution
Legacy basis
Single-radial 22.9 kV feeders
Rubin-era basis
Ring-grouped RMU with redundant step-down
Consequence · Concurrent maintenance becomes a sizing constraint, not an afterthought.
Cooling topology
Legacy basis
CRAH / RDHx in white space
Rubin-era basis
L2L CDUs decoupling primary and secondary loops
Consequence · Secondary ΔT and CDU placement (In-Row vs EoR) drives floor layout, not the other way around.
Validation evidence
Legacy basis
Spreadsheets, screenshots, marked-up PDFs
Rubin-era basis
Engine output feeding pandapower / OpenFOAM / EnergyPlus
Consequence · Reviewers ask for the model, not the deck. The deck must be a view of the model.
02 · PLATFORM CAPABILITIES
AIDC-AI.IO is a generic automatic design engine — not a site-specific template. Each capability shares the same data model, so changes propagate through every view, panel, and export.
MV distribution from utility intake to LV bus. RMU ring groups, transformer capacity, generator step-up, and UPS sizing planned against the actual hall load.
Direct-to-chip and rear-door options modeled per rack. CDUs placed in-row or end-of-row, decoupling primary and secondary loops at the right capacity step.
Hall, tech space, plant, and EX-plant zoning. EPOD blocks, RMU rooms, UPS rooms, generator yards, and substation footprints aligned to one source of truth.
Rule families across electrical, cooling, layout, safety, and vendor data run continuously. Uncertainty is tracked as RFIs until vendor or owner data closes the gap.
Site totals, hall panels, Sankey, SLD, and Excel exports consume the same engine output, so what reviewers see matches what the engine computed.
03 · UNIFIED SOURCE OF TRUTH
Site totals, hall panels, Sankey, SLD, Excel exports, validators, and configurators all read the same engine model. No spreadsheet drift, no manual reconciliation between a deck and a one-line.
ENGINE
AIDC design engine
Generic, profile-aware, deterministic.
04 · RUBIN-ERA INFRASTRUCTURE
Rack thermal profiles, MV distribution, and CDU topology are not after-thoughts. The engine assumes high rack density and direct-to-chip liquid cooling as the default basis, with optional capability profiles for future vendor- or Rubin-specific variants.
| Parameter | Engine basis | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Rack density basis | ≥ 120 kW | Plan against per-rack thermal envelope, not nameplate averages. |
| MV distribution | 22.9 kV | MV-to-LV step-down strategies sized to peak AI workload. |
| Cooling topology | L2L · D2C | Direct-to-chip primary; rear-door / immersion options as profile variants. |
| CDU placement | In-Row / End-of-Row | Decouples primary and secondary loops at the right capacity step. |
| PUE basis | Profile-aware | Stated as a basis assumption, not a marketing number. |
| Fabric scale | 1.6T-class | InfiniBand / Ethernet topology and NVLink switch planning. |
05 · VALIDATION WORKFLOW
Rule families across electrical, layout, cooling, safety, and data fire whenever the model changes. Items that depend on vendor or owner input become RFIs until confirmed, so the design's evidentiary basis is always traceable.
Electrical
Layout
Cooling
Safety
Data
06 · EXTERNAL EVIDENCE / EXPORT LEDGER
The engine produces structured outputs intended to feed external validators. Where an integration is not actually implemented, we surface it as an evidence workflow — a deliberate handoff with documented inputs and assumptions — rather than a finished tie-in.
| External tool | Domain | Status |
|---|---|---|
| pandapower | Power flow / network analysis | EVIDENCE WORKFLOW |
| SLD workflows | Single-line diagram review | EVIDENCE WORKFLOW |
| EnergyPlus / OpenStudio | Building energy modeling | EVIDENCE WORKFLOW |
| OpenFOAM | CFD / airflow modeling | EVIDENCE WORKFLOW |
| Ecodial | LV electrical sizing | EVIDENCE WORKFLOW |
| SIMARIS | Electrical planning | EVIDENCE WORKFLOW |
| DOC | Coordination / discrimination | EVIDENCE WORKFLOW |
| xSpider | Selectivity analysis | EVIDENCE WORKFLOW |
07 · ENTER THE PLATFORM
Architects, engineers, developers, and owners — plan power, cooling, and layout with one source of truth, then export the evidence reviewers actually accept.
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