Dell Technologies unveiled a groundbreaking lineup of AI-powered servers featuring NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra chips at its annual Dell Technologies World event in Las Vegas on May 19, 2025, reinforcing its position as a leader in enterprise AI infrastructure.
The centerpiece of Dell's announcement is the new PowerEdge server family, including the air-cooled XE9780 and XE9785 models, alongside their liquid-cooled counterparts XE9780L and XE9785L. These servers support up to 192 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with direct-to-chip liquid cooling and can be customized with up to 256 GPUs per Dell IR7000 rack. According to Dell, these platforms deliver up to four times faster large language model training compared to previous generations.
The company also introduced the PowerEdge XE9712 featuring NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, which offers rack-scale efficiency for AI training with 50 times more reasoning inference output and five times improvement in throughput. This system connects 36 NVIDIA Grace CPUs with 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in a rack-scale design where the GPUs act as a single unit through NVLink technology.
Dell's strategic focus on AI adoption comes as enterprises increasingly move AI workloads on-premises, with 85% planning to do so within 24 months. The company reports that its AI factories are delivering returns on investment with productivity gains ranging from 20% to 40%. These efficiency improvements align with projections that AI will add approximately $15 trillion to the global economy by 2030.
"AI factories are the infrastructure of modern industry, generating intelligence to power work across healthcare, finance and manufacturing," said Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's founder and CEO, who joined Michael Dell on stage during the opening keynote. "With Dell Technologies, we're offering the broadest line of Blackwell AI systems to serve AI factories in clouds, enterprises and at the edge."
The new servers will be available in the second half of 2025, with the PowerEdge XE7745 server featuring NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs arriving in July 2025. Dell is also enhancing its AI capabilities with new storage solutions, networking infrastructure, and managed services to help enterprises accelerate AI adoption and achieve faster time to value.