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US 11,856,686 B1Granted
Submerged data center facility system and method
AssigneeNautilus TRUE, LLC
InventorsArnold Castillo Magcale, Byron Taylor
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Abstract
A submerged waterborne data center facility that employs a feedback-control system to control any one of a condensation function, depth function, and a wired or wireless data transfer function utilizing on-board and out-board sensors operatively coupled to an operational state change controller, controlling for a hygrostat-coupled heater, depth thruster, and, or a radio frequency modulation unit.
Claims18
A submersible marine vessel comprising:
- a heat exchange system;
- a water based cooling system operatively coupled to the heat exchange system and comprising a first and second single or plurality of filtered water pipes wherein the first and second single or plurality of filtered water pipes are operable as water intake pipes and water exhaust pipes;
- a computer data center, wherein the computer data center comprises a plurality of computing units, a radio-frequency modulator, and wherein the computer data center is comprised in the submersible marine vessel;
- a depth thruster disposed on an outer surface of the submersible marine vessel, and configured to cause a forward propulsion, a reverse propulsion, a depth propulsion, a tilt, and a rotation of the submersible marine vessel;
- a hygrostat coupled heater operatively coupled to a dehumidifying unit;
- a hot water return cooling system configured to cool hot water returned from a water based closed-loop cooling system comprised in the heat exchange system;
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- a software management suite comprising a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) system configured for collecting data from at least one sensor embedded within the computer data center enclosure submerged in water and at least one sensor disposed on the outer surface of the submersible marine vessel, wherein the data collected from the at least one sensor embedded within the computer data center enclosure and the at least one sensor disposed on the outer surface are used to monitor an operations output and environmental characteristic, and the depth thruster is activated based on the operations output and environmental characteristic to adjust depth levels of the computer data center contained within the submersible marine vessel, thereby managing infrastructure systems and operational states of the computer data center to sustain a desired efficiency.
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In a submersible marine vessel comprising a data center facility, a method comprising:
- generating electrical power and providing the generated electrical power to the data-center, wherein any excess power is stored as back up in the submersible marine vessel;
- pumping surrounding water and circulating the pumped water through a closed loop cooling system;
- wherein the closed loop cooling system is comprised in a heat exchanger;
- wherein the surrounding water is drawn by water pumps through a first single or plurality of filtered water pipes to be pumped through a first side of the heat exchanger, where it serves as a heat sink to cool hot coolant from a coolant distribution unit, pumped through a second side of the heat exchanger;
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- expelling the pumped water after absorbing the heat from the hot coolant through a second single or plurality of filtered water pipes;
- wherein the first and second single or plurality of filtered water pipes are operable as water intake pipes and water exhaust pipes;
- activating a depth thruster to cause propulsion of the submersible marine vessel, wherein the depth thruster is disposed on an outer surface of the submersible marine vessel, and is configured to cause a forward propulsion, a reverse propulsion, a depth propulsion, a tilt, and a rotation of the submersible marine vessel, wherein the depth thruster is controlled with aid of a software management suite, and is activated based on an operations output and environmental characteristic calculated based on data collected from at least one sensor embedded within the computer data center enclosure and at least one sensor disposed on the outer surface to adjust depth levels of the data center facility contained within the submersible marine vessel, thereby managing infrastructure systems and operational states of the data center facility to sustain a desired efficiency;
- activating a hygrostat-coupled heater operatively coupled to a dehumidifier to control environmental humidity;
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- based on achieved greater depth, activating a radio-frequency modulator for increasing bandwidth of wireless transfer of data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.