Vertiv Liebert Trinergy Cube, 800 kW-1.6 MW

Manufacturer: Vertiv

Vertiv's hot-serviceable megawatt UPS built from 400 kW power cores and paralleled to 12.8 MW

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Vertiv Liebert Trinergy Cube dossier: 800 kW to 1.6 MW from 400 kW hot-serviceable cores, 12.8 MW in parallel, 99.2% ECO efficiency, and inspection guidance.

Why it matters

Core-level hot service changes how a used unit should be assessed. A single core fault does not condemn the frame, so a secondary evaluation has to be done per core rather than per cabinet, counting cores, their hours and their fault history separately. That is the same discipline modular UPS demands, applied at 400 kW granularity instead of 50.

Who buys it

Hyperscale and large colocation operators in the Americas building megawatt UPS blocks, and integrators assembling multi-megawatt parallel systems where hot service at the core level matters more than cabinet-level redundancy. No used Trinergy Cube has appeared in a public channel, so today every buyer is a new-equipment buyer.

Role in the data center

Megawatt-class primary UPS for Americas hyperscale and colocation halls, built from 400 kW cores and paralleled to 12.8 MW with distributed batteries. A single core measures 77.0 by 26.8 by 36.1 inches at 1,300 lb and is hot-serviceable, so the frame stays on load through a core fault. Rated operation runs to 55 degrees C with a 100 kA short-circuit withstand.

Key specifications

Technical summary

Range: 800 kW to 1.6 MW in a single unit, from hot-serviceable 400 kW power cores. Parallel: up to 8 units for 12.8 MW; three-dimensional modularity. Efficiency: up to 96.8% double conversion; up to 99% Dynamic Online; up to 99.2% ECO. Input/output: 480 VAC three-phase, three-wire; 60 Hz plus or minus 5 in, plus or minus 0.1 out. Input power factor: 0.99 or better; short-circuit withstand 100 kA. Topology: transformer-free, three-level NPC2 rectifier and inverter, distributed batteries. Footprint per 400 kW core: 77.0 x 26.8 x 36.1 in (1,956 x 680 x 916 mm) at 1,300 lb. Battery: Vertiv HPL, lithium-ion, VRLA and VLA at 480 VDC nominal, 540 VDC float. Operating temperature: 0-55 degrees C. Standards: UL 1778 5th ed.; CSA 22.2 No. 107.3; IEC 62040-2; FCC Part 15 Class A; IBC 2015 seismic.

Major variations

A single-unit range of 800 kW to 1.6 MW assembled from hot-serviceable 400 kW power cores, with the catalogue SKU being the core itself, and up to eight units in parallel for 12.8 MW. Three-dimensional modularity lets cores be added vertically, horizontally and orthogonally. Trinergy Cube is the Americas 480 V product; the EMEA line is listed as Vertiv Trinergy at 1500 to 2000 kW on 400 V CE and is a separate product. An earlier global positioning at 150 kW to 3.4 MW survives in Vertiv asset paths and is useful for dating field units. Battery compatibility runs Vertiv HPL, lithium-ion, VRLA and VLA.

Configurations and options

The catalogue item is the 400 kW power core, and a machine is built from cores to 800 kW or 1.6 MW, so the quantity of cores installed is the configuration that sets delivered capacity. Cores are hot-serviceable and can be added vertically, horizontally or orthogonally, and up to eight units parallel to 12.8 MW. Battery plant is distributed and external, specified as Vertiv HPL, lithium-ion, VRLA or VLA, and Vertiv names HPL separately from generic lithium-ion in its own compatibility list, so the two are not interchangeable on an order. Seismic qualification to IBC 2015 is published. Regional naming is an ordering issue in its own right: Trinergy Cube is the Americas 480 V product, while Vertiv Trinergy at 1500-2000 kW on 400 V CE is the EMEA line and a different record.

Compatibility and dependencies

Input and output are 480 VAC three-phase, three-wire, at 60 Hz within 5% in and 0.1% out, with input power factor at or above 0.99. Short-circuit withstand is 100 kA, which decides what upstream board the machine can sit behind and is one of the higher figures published in this class. Batteries are external and distributed at 480 VDC nominal, floating at 540 VDC. A single 400 kW core is 77.0 x 26.8 x 36.1 in at 1,300 lb, so a 1.6 MW machine is four cores of rigging and floor loading rather than one monolith, and a used assessment should be made per core because a single-core fault does not condemn the frame. The operating range is 0 to 55 deg C, wider than most of this class. Trinergy is absent from Vertiv's capacitor and fan lifespan chart CS-00271, so service intervals come from operation and maintenance guide SL-30837.

Pricing and availability

Trend: rising Lead time, new: 40-60 weeks (modular UPS above 2,000 kVA class benchmark). Lead time, used or refurbished: No used or refurbished unit listed as of August 2026. Warranty, used: 1-year typical from refurbishment dealers.

Lifecycle and maintenance

Modular frames outlive their modules: cabinet, bus and static bypass run 15 years or more while the hot-swap power modules carry the fans and DC capacitors that wear, so the question is module hours and module count rather than cabinet age. A 1,500 kW ABB DPA system holds 30 module-level fan and capacitor sets. Eaton rates DC bus capacitors at 7 years of continuous duty and up to 10 in favourable conditions, and Vertiv field data gives 6 years for capacitors and 5-6 years or 40,000-50,000 hours for fans. Batteries turn over far faster, at 3-5 years for sealed VRLA and 12-15 for flooded cells, and spent lead-acid leaves as regulated waste through compliant recycling rather than resale. Eaton's 93PM service life extension program rebuilds the power train inside the existing shell in about 24 hours and resets another 10 years.

Thermal and emissions profile

UPS systems produce no combustion emissions, so the regulatory weight sits on the battery. The 2026 edition of NFPA 855 broadens detection to smoke, thermal-imaging and radiant-energy systems, mandates large-scale fire testing alongside UL 9540A to prove no propagation between adjacent units, and adds a staging exception for batteries held at or below 50% state of charge that matters directly to anyone moving lithium cabinets through a secondary market. Uptime Institute's 2026 outage analysis names lithium-ion batteries in UPS systems as a clear contributor to a gradual rise in major data center fires. Confirm UL 1973, UL 9540A and UL 9540 status on any lithium cabinet, then confirm what the authority having jurisdiction requires to requalify the room.

Common failure points

• Power module population — A frame sold on nameplate ships with fewer modules than the rating implies
• Module fans and capacitors — Consumables sit inside each module, so wear scales with module count not cabinet count
• Battery strings — VRLA capacity fades below 80% of nameplate and takes the ride-through with it
• Missing filler plates — Open slots break the cooling path and signal careless handling
• Live Swap entitlement — A frame without the Live Swap label must be bypassed for any module work
• Controls obsolescence — Controller and display boards reach end of life ahead of the power train

Inspection checklist

Module count: count populated slots against the frame rating; Eaton lists a 4 kVA 9PXM power module at 4,377 USD. Filler plates: Schneider's manual requires a module or filler plate in every slot on a 50 kW module bay. Module consumables: fans and capacitors live inside each module; a 1,500 kW DPA system carries 30 such sets. Live Swap label: verify the physical label; a Galaxy VS or VL without it must be bypassed, at 200 mm standoff. Module part numbers: confirm interchange; Schneider GVPM50KD is 50 kW at 400/480 V and 25 kW at 208 V. Battery age: sealed VRLA turns over at 3-5 years per Eaton lifecycle guidance; assume a full string past that. Battery capacity: reject any string below 80% of nameplate capacity under IEEE 1188 practice. Battery impedance: treat ohmic readings more than 20% above the commissioning baseline as an investigation trigger under IEEE 1188 field practice, then confirm against the battery manufacturer limit for the chemistry before condemning a cell.

Procurement channels

New units through Vertiv and its channel, quote-only. Secondary supply, when it appears, will come from data center decommissions rather than dealer inventory, because units at this scale are heavily service-contracted.

Regional notes

Americas 480 V product. The EMEA equivalent is a separate product, listed as Vertiv Trinergy at 1500-2000 kW on 400 V CE. Vertiv EMEA lists Trinergy Cube under pre-2024 legacy models, so confirm with Vertiv whether an EMEA-sourced unit is current production.