DATA CENTER

• US 20120147552A1
• Filed: 08/01/2011
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Cirrascale Corporation (BOXX Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Cirrascale Corporation (BOXX Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: DRIGGERS, DAVID
• Application Number:
  US13/195,817
• Publication Number:
  US 20120147552A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679.53
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/30 for purposes related to the operation of the system, e.g. for safety or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/10 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/20 Humidity
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05F 1/66 Regulating electric power
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/183 Internal mounting support structures, e.g. for printed circuit boards, internal connecting means for buses G06F13/409
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/20 Cooling means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/201 Cooling arrangements using cooling fluid
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 35/00 Electric light sources using a combination of different types of light generation
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 41/38 Controlling the intensity of light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/175 by remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/1497 Rooms for data centers; Shipping containers therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20736 within cabinets for removing heat from server blades
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/20745 within rooms for removing heat from cabinets, e.g. by air conditioning device
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 7/2079 within rooms for removing heat from cabinets

Abstract

A data center inside a shipping container having a lower plenum and an upper plenum in its interior. Heated air in the upper plenum exits therefrom into a plurality of heat exchangers adjacent thereto. Air cooled by the heat exchangers travels toward and enters the lower plenum. The data center includes a plurality of carriages each having an equipment receiving portion located between an open bottom portion in open communication with the lower plenum, and an open top portion in open communication with the upper plenum. Fans inside each of the carriages draw cooled air up from the lower plenum into the open bottom portion of the carriage, blow the cooled air up through the equipment receiving portion thereby cooling any computing equipment received therein, and vent the cooled air through the open top portion into the upper plenum.

Claims

1. A modular data center comprising:

a facilities module having a base frame of longitudinal, vertical, and transverse frame members which form a rectangular shaped volume and define two side portions, two end portions, a top portion and a bottom portion wherein said frame members have external mating surfaces, a chilled water inlet connection for receiving chilled water from an external source, a chilled water outlet connection for exiting the chilled water from the interior portion of the modular data center, one or more water/refrigerant heat exchangers that receive said chilled water from said chilled water inlet and returns said chilled water to said chilled water outlet, said water/refrigerant heat exchangers also receiving refrigerant from and returning refrigerant to air/refrigerant heat exchangers located internally to the modular data center, a power connection to receive power from an external source, a power distribution system consisting of said power connection, switches, breakers, and electrical panels which control and distribute power to the equipment located internally to the modular data center, an environment control system for sensing and controlling the environmental conditions internal to the modular data center, a network connection, a controller for controlling and modifying conditions internal to the modular data center, modular walls comprising an outer layer, a middle insulation layer, and an inner layer having a mating surface which is in direct communication with said side portions, one said end portion, said top portion, and said bottom portion;

a computing equipment module having a base frame of longitudinal, vertical and transverse frame members which form a rectangular shaped volume and define two side portions, two end portions, a top portion and a bottom portion wherein said frame members have external mating surfaces, modular walls comprising an outer layer, a middle insulation layer, and an inner layer having a mating surface, where said mating surfaces of said modular walls are in direct communication with said side portions, said top portion, and said bottom portion, an upper plenum, a lower plenum, one or more equipment receiving areas located between said upper and said lower plenum and adjacent to said side portions, a center aisle section located between said equipment receiving areas, a floor section located at the bottom of said center aisle section and above said lower plenum, a lighting system, a carriage located in the equipment receiving areas and having a plurality of upwardly and longitudinally directed air moving devices, a cable tray system for routing cables between modules, one or more air/refrigerant heat exchangers where the refrigerant lines of said air/refrigerant heat exchangers are in communication with one of said water/refrigerant heat exchangers; and

an end cap having a frame consisting of two vertically extending frame members and two transversely extending frame members wherein said frame members have external mating surfaces, a modular wall comprising an outer layer, a middle insulation layer, and an inner layer having a mating surface, wherein said mating surfaces of said modular wall are in direct communication with said frame, and a door located integrally to said modular wall for personnel access.