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Electronic equipment data center or co-location facility designs and methods of making and using the same

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  • US 9,788,455 B1
  • Filed: 06/13/2008
  • Issued: 10/10/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A facility for maintaining electronic equipment disposed in at least one cluster of cage cabinets at a cool temperature using a plurality of air conditioning units, the at least one cluster of cage cabinets positioned in a back-to-back configuration in two separated rows so that the electronic equipment disposed therein emit heated air in a predetermined direction from the cage cabinets to establish a hot aisle enclosure area between the two separated rows of cage cabinets, and an opposite side of the cage cabinets each establishing a cold aisle, the plurality of air conditioning units receiving heated air and emitting cooled air, the facility comprising:

  • a floor on which the plurality of cage cabinets are disposed, wherein the at least one cluster of cage cabinets is disposed in the two separated rows to establish the hot aisle enclosure area, the floor being within a space that has walls that define a room;

    a plurality of support brackets disposed along each of the two rows of the at least one cluster of cage cabinets, so that a portion of each of the support bracket is disposed above the at least one cluster of cage cabinets;

    a thermal shield supported by the portion of at least some of the plurality of support brackets, the thermal shield providing a contiguous wall around a hot air area above the hot aisle enclosure area at a height above the two separated rows of cage cabinets to define a warm exhaust channel that traps the heated air within the hot aisle enclosure area and causes substantially all the heated air within the hot aisle enclosure area to rise up within the warm exhaust channel, wherein the contiguous wall fully surrounds the hot aisle enclosure area from above the at least one cluster of cage cabinets;

    a warm air escape channel disposed above the warm exhaust channel, the warm air escape channel feeding the heated air to the plurality of air conditioning units, wherein the warm air escape channel is bounded at a bottom by a ceiling that provides a barrier to prevent the heated air from passing therebelow, wherein an opening exists in the ceiling corresponding to the warm exhaust channel through which the heated air passes, and wherein a top edge of the thermal shield extends from the ceiling to the cage cabinets to further prevent the heated air from escaping; and

    a cool air channel that connects between the air conditioning system and the cold aisle, the cool air channel delivering cool air from the plurality of air conditioning units to the cool aisle.

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