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US 11,377,372 B2Granted
Systems and methods for data center cooling and water desalination
AssigneeDeepWater Desal LLC
InventorBrent Richard Constantz
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides systems for data center cooling and water desalination. In some aspects, the systems include a data center having a water cooling subsystem configured to receive cool water and output warm water and a desalination plant co-located with the data center and configured to receive and desalinate the warm water. Aspects of the invention also include methods for cooling a data center using a water cooling subsystem and desalinating water with a desalination plant that is co-located with the data center.
Claims11
A method of cooling a data center, the method comprising:
- (a) cooling a data center with a water cooling subsystem comprising a cool water intake and a warm water discharge, wherein the data center comprises computer systems and the water cooling subsystem is configured to carry heat energy away from the computer systems, wherein the data center further comprises data storage devices, servers, switches, routers, vaults, load balancers, racks, wire cages and closets;
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- (b) desalinating warm water received from the warm water discharge at a desalination plant that is co-located with the data center
- (c) further comprising obtaining power to operate the data center and the desalination plant from a power plant co-located with the data center and the desalination plant.
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