Controlled Warm Air Capture
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Abstract
A system for providing air circulation to rack-mounted computers can include a plurality of rack-mounted computers on a plurality of motherboards, each motherboard having a front end near a work space and a back end; one or more fans associated with the plurality of motherboards and adapted to deliver heated air from the computers to a common warm-air plenum; and one or more motor controllers coupled to the plurality of fans and adapted to maintain a substantially constant sensed exhaust temperature for air moved by the fans.
137 Citations
78 Claims
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49. A system for cooling a computer data center, comprising:
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a data center building that defines a workspace and an attic space; a ceiling of the workspace that physically separates the workspace form the attic space; a plurality of computer racks housing computer systems and arranged in the workspace to receive supply air circulated from the workspace; a warm air capture plenum fluidly connected to the attic space and arranged to receive warmed air from the computer racks and; one or more outdoor air intakes arranged to receive outside air into the data center building; and one or more exhaust fans arranged to remove warmed air from the data center building. - View Dependent Claims (50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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63. A method of cooling a computer data center, comprising:
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receiving outdoor air into a data center building; circulating cool air over computers mounted in a plurality of computer racks and into a warm air capture plenum adjacent the computer racks to warm the cool air; circulating the warm air from the warm air capture plenum into an attic space above the computer racks; and exhausting at least some of the warm air to outside of the data center building. - View Dependent Claims (64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74)
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75. A system for cooling a computer data center, comprising:
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a data center building that defines a workspace and an attic space; a ceiling of the workspace that physically separates the workspace form the attic space; a plurality of computer racks housing computer systems and arranged in the workspace to receive supply air from the workspace; means for circulating cool air from the workspace across computers in the computer racks to heat the cool air, and into a warm air capture plenum that is fluidly connected to the attic space; one or more outdoor air intakes arranged to take outside air into the data center building; and one or more exhaust fans arranged to remove the heated air from the data center building. - View Dependent Claims (76, 77, 78)
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