Supermicro's Revolutionary Data Center Building Block Solutions® (DCBBS) Simplify and Shorten Global-Scale Buildouts of AI/IT Liquid-Cooled Data Centers

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Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) has unveiled its Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS), a comprehensive solution for building liquid-cooled AI data centers. The solution enables rapid deployment within three months and includes servers, storage, networking, rack, liquid cooling, software, services, and support. DCBBS features a 256-node AI Factory package equipped with up to 2,048 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and up to 800Gb/s networking. The solution's DLC-2 technology delivers significant improvements, including up to 40% power savings, 60% reduced footprint, and 40% lower water consumption, resulting in 20% lower TCO. Supermicro's solution offers customization at system, rack, and data center levels, supported by comprehensive services including design, validation, deployment, and ongoing support with a 4-hour response time option.

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• Enables rapid data center deployment in as little as 3 months
• Delivers 40% power savings, 60% reduced footprint, and 40% lower water consumption
• Achieves 20% lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Offers high scalability with up to 2,048 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in a single package
• Provides comprehensive customization options at system, rack, and data center levels
• Features advanced DLC-2 technology with up to 98% liquid cooling heat capture

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Insights

Data Center Infrastructure Specialist

Supermicro's new DCBBS solution addresses critical AI data center buildout challenges with potential for market share gains in liquid cooling.

Supermicro has unveiled a comprehensive modular approach to simplify the increasingly complex process of building AI-focused data centers. The Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) addresses several critical pain points in the industry: lengthy design cycles, deployment delays, and the challenges of implementing liquid cooling at scale.

The solution's architecture spans from system components to rack design to full data center implementation, with Supermicro providing pre-validated packages that include floor plans, rack configurations, and detailed bills of materials. This "full-stack" approach tackles a significant market gap as organizations struggle with the specialized requirements of AI infrastructure deployment.

Most compelling are the claims about deployment acceleration - promising to reduce typical buildout times to as little as three months compared to the 12+ months often required for custom designs. The company's expanded liquid cooling capabilities (DLC-2) also address the thermal challenges of next-generation AI accelerators, supporting chips with thermal design power exceeding 1000W.

The timing of this launch aligns perfectly with the industry's rapid shift toward liquid cooling, which Supermicro estimates will grow from less than 1% to approximately 30% of the market within a year. This represents a strategic positioning that leverages Supermicro's manufacturing scale and integration capabilities to capture share in this high-growth segment.

The solution architecture appears particularly targeted at large-scale AI training environments, supporting configurations with up to 2,048 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in a single deployment unit. This indicates Supermicro is aiming at the most demanding tier of AI infrastructure customers - the same ones driving the explosive growth in data center GPU demand.

The quantifiable benefits cited are substantial: 40% power savings, 60% reduced footprint, 40% lower water consumption, and 20% improved TCO compared to traditional air-cooled infrastructure. These efficiency improvements directly address the economic and sustainability challenges that have become bottlenecks for AI expansion.

• Easy-to-design, easy-to-build, easy-to-deploy, and easy-to-operate solution for all critical computing and cooling infrastructure
• Quick time-to-deployment and quick time-to-online with everything required to fully outfit AI/IT data centers
• Saving cost with modularized building block solution architecture from system to rack to data center scale
• High quality and high availability with Supermicro's industry-leading design, manufacturing capacity, management software, on-site services, and global support

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, is announcing Data Center Building Block Solutions, the easiest solution to overcome the immense complexities of outfitting liquid cooled AI factories with all critical infrastructure components, including servers, storage, networking, rack, liquid cooling, software, services, and support. As an expansion of Supermicro's System Building Block Solutions, DCBBS adopts a standardized, yet flexible solution architecture, vastly expanded in scope to handle the most demanding AI data center training and inference workloads, enabling easier data center planning, buildout, and operation – all while reducing cost.

"Supermicro's DCBBS enables clients to easily construct data center infrastructure with the fastest time-to-market and time-to-online advantage, deploying as quickly as three months," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "With our total solution coverage, including designing data center layouts and network topologies, power and battery backup-units, DCBBS simplifies and accelerates AI data center buildouts leading to reduced costs and improved quality."

For more information, please visit www.supermicro.com/DCBBS 

DCBBS offers packages of pre-validated data center-level scalable units, including a 256-node AI Factory DCBBS scalable unit, designed to alleviate the burden of prolonged data center design by providing a streamlined package of floor plans, rack elevations, bill of materials, and more. Supermicro provides comprehensive first-party services to ensure project success, starting from consultation to on-site deployment and continued on-site support. DCBBS is customizable at the system-level, rack cluster-level, and data center-level to meet virtually any project requirements.

Along with our DLC-2 technology, DCBBS also helps customers save up to 40% power, reducing 60% data center footprint, and decreasing 40% water consumption, all of which leads to 20% lower TCO.

AI Factory Data Center-Level Scalable Unit  

The need for AI infrastructure continues to scale: AI training clusters require clusters of thousands of GPUs to develop foundation models. AI inference applications are also leveraging more test-time compute capacity by running multiple inference passes with a mixture of models to deliver greater intelligence. Supermicro's AI Factory DCBBS package fully equips data centers to tackle these rising AI computational requirements.

Solutions from Supermicro include up to 256 Liquid Cooled 4U Supermicro NVIDIA HGX^™ system nodes, each system equipped with 8 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs (2,048 GPUs in total), interconnected with up to 800Gb/s NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand or NVIDIA Spectrum^™ X Ethernet networking platform. The compute fabric is supported by elastically scalable tiered storage with high-performance PCIe Gen5 NVMe, TCO optimized Data Lake nodes, and resilient management system nodes for continuous uninterrupted operation.

System-Level, Rack-Level, and Data Center-Level Customization

Supermicro features a modular building block approach, composed of three hierarchical levels: the system-level, rack-level, and data center level, giving customers unparalleled design options in determining a system-level bill of materials, down to selecting individual components, including CPUs, GPUs, DIMMs, drives, and NICs. System-level customization ensures the ability to meet specialized hardware requirements for a particular data center workloads and applications and allows for granular fine-tuning of data center resources.

Supermicro aids in designing rack enclosure elevation layouts to ensure optimization for thermals and cabling, giving customers the ability to select the type of rack enclosure, including 42U, 48U, and 52U configurations.

After the initial consultation with the customer, Supermicro delivers a project proposal tailored to a given data center power budget, performance target, or other requirements.

Supermicro DLC-2

With liquid-cooled data centers growing from less than 1% of the market to an expected 30% within a year, Supermicro is driving the industry-wide adoption of DLC by helping customers achieve the challenge of needing to build new liquid-cooled data centers that can more efficiently remove heat.

DLC provides unmatched efficiency by capturing heat directly from the individual chips, including AI GPUs running at 1000W TDP and beyond. Liquid cooling infrastructure is planned and deployed at data center scale, including the piping and facility-side liquid cooling tower for heat dissipation. Supermicro leads the industry in providing a total solution for direct-to-chip liquid cooling infrastructure, consisting of DLC systems, in-rack or in-row coolant distribution units, coolant distribution manifolds, cooling towards, and more. Supermicro's DLC-2 brings further improvements:

Cold Plates	CPU, GPU, PCle Switch, DIMM, VRM, PSU and more
Max Inlet Water Temperature	Up to 45°C
Noise Level	As low as 50dB
LC Heat Capture	Up to 98%
Data Center Power Savings (vs. Air-cooling)	Up to 40%

Service & Software Building Blocks

DCBBS includes the services required to achieve time-to-market and time-to-online quickly, without having to drain the customer's own IT resources. Supermicro offers a complete portfolio of service-level building blocks such as datacenter design, solution validation, and professional onsite deployment. It includes continued on-site support to ensure long-term success, along with a 4-hour Onsite Response time option for mission-critical uptime.

Supermicro's SuperCloud Composer^® provides a suite of infrastructure management capabilities, with rich analytics that manage compute, storage, and network building blocks at cloud scale.

In addition to services, Supermicro has broad expertise in data center application integration, including AI training, AI inferencing, cluster management, and workload orchestration. This includes supporting customers deploying the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform. Supermicro provides full services for software provisioning and validation based on the customer's software stack.

About Super Micro Computer, Inc.

Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions^® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).  

Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.

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FAQ

What is Supermicro's DCBBS and how does it benefit data centers?

DCBBS (Data Center Building Block Solutions) is Supermicro's comprehensive solution for building liquid-cooled AI data centers, offering rapid deployment, 40% power savings, 60% reduced footprint, and 40% lower water consumption, resulting in 20% lower TCO.

How many NVIDIA GPUs can Supermicro's AI Factory DCBBS support?

Supermicro's AI Factory DCBBS can support up to 2,048 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs across 256 liquid-cooled 4U system nodes.

What are the key features of Supermicro's DLC-2 cooling technology?

DLC-2 features up to 98% liquid cooling heat capture, supports inlet water temperature up to 45°C, operates at noise levels as low as 50dB, and provides cooling for CPU, GPU, PCIe Switch, DIMM, VRM, and PSU components.

How quickly can Supermicro SMCI deploy a new AI data center?

Supermicro can deploy new AI data centers in as quickly as three months, offering rapid time-to-market and time-to-online advantages.

What customization options does Supermicro DCBBS offer?

DCBBS offers customization at three levels: system-level (CPUs, GPUs, DIMMs, drives, NICs), rack-level (42U, 48U, and 52U configurations), and data center-level to meet specific project requirements.