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US 2014/0229765 A1Published application
Datacenter utilizing modular infrastructure systems and redundancy protection from failure
AssigneeBeacon Property Group LLC
InventorJoshua Nathaniel Grimshaw
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Abstract
A datacenter housing servers, computers, data storage devices, telecommunications and related equipment for storing and accessing large amounts of data on a continuous, uninterrupted and reliable basis, which is provided with a supporting system or infrastructure for supplying power and cooling to the datacenter, which involves equipment primarily contained in modules situated outside the building that houses the primary computer and server equipment, whereby said supporting system or infrastructure is designed with redundant equipment, connections, and controls to avoid any single point of potential failure.
Claims13
A datacenter for providing continuous and secure access and storage for data, said datacenter comprising:
- a facility for housing computers, servers and associated computer and telecommunications equipment;
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- an infrastructure support system for providing electrical power and cooling for said facility, said infrastructure support system primarily situated outside said facility, said electrical power infrastructure comprising equipment and containers or modules containing equipment, said electrical power infrastructure comprising:
- a) a primary switchboard module containing a switchboard or switchgear and a plurality of automatic transfer switches (ATS);
- b) a secondary switchboard module containing a switchboard or switchgear
- c) two or more generators for generating electrical power
- d) two or more transformers
- e) two or more uninterruptible power system (UPS) modules each containing one or more UPS units and energy storage devices,
- wherein utility-sourced electrical power flows to a primary transformer and then to a primary switchboard module containing a main or primary switchboard, from which electrical power flows to a plurality of automatic transfer switches (ATS) in a switchboard module which subsequently transfers electrical power to one or more UPS systems within one or more UPS modules, said UPS systems distributing electrical power to the facility and other systems of the datacenter;
- wherein, if there is a loss in utility-sourced electrical power, one or more ATS units within a switchboard container is capable of detecting the loss of utility power and sensing alternative available power sources in the infrastructure and is capable of carrying out steps to transfer the load to one or more available alternative sources of electrical power;
- wherein if there is a loss in utility-sourced electrical power, said primary switchboard is capable of receiving electrical power from a primary generator source in the infrastructure;
- wherein said secondary switchboard in a secondary switchboard module, is capable of being activated by an ATS in a switchboard module, said secondary switchboard capable of receiving utility-sourced electrical power from a secondary transformer that bypasses the primary transformer and primary switchboard, said secondary switchboard also capable of receiving electrical power from a reserve generator source which bypasses the primary switchboard and is capable of transferring electrical power to one or more automatic transfer switch units;
- wherein said automatic transfer switch units in said primary switchboard module is capable of transferring electrical power along alternative pathways to one or more uninterruptible power systems;
- wherein said infrastructure contains redundancies in equipment, pathways and connections to possess no single point of potential failure in the availability of electrical power for operating the facility;
- wherein the capacity of the infrastructure electrical power system based on utility-sourced electrical power exceeds the load of the facility and the cooling system for the facility and the capacity of the infrastructure electrical power system based on non-utility sourced electrical power exceeds the critical load for the operation of computer-related and telecommunications-related equipment in the facility.
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An infrastructure support system for a datacenter, said infrastructure system having redundant components, connections, pathways and controls to be capable of supplying substantially uninterrupted power to operate computer and related equipment within the datacenter, said infrastructure components substantially situated outside a building that substantially contains the computer and related equipment, said infrastructure power system comprising:
- a) control equipment that senses or controls or activates equipment to supply usable electrical power to computer and related equipment of the datacenter even when there is a failure in the flow of utility-sourced power, said equipment capable of:
- b) detecting an interruption in the flow of utility-sourced power,
- c) shutting off the electrical line to the utility sourced power when said interruption is detected,
- d) triggering the operation of the energy storage devices when said interruption is detected,
- e) triggering the operation of generator equipment when said interruption is detected,
- f) detecting the capability of generator equipment to supply usable electrical power to said datacenter components and upon such detection shutting off said energy storage devices, and
- g) detecting the resumption of the utility-sourced electrical power and when said resumption is detected, terminating the operation of said generator equipment or said energy storage devices;
- h) a transformer system comprising one or more transformer units, which operates when there is electricity flowing from the utility source of electrical power and which is capable of converting the utility-sourced electrical power to a level of voltage suitable for use by the components of the datacenter, wherein said transformer system having a redundancy capability and design permitting each of the transformer units to operate independently of one another in the event one of the plurality of transformer units malfunctions or becomes inoperable;
- i) an energy storage device system comprising a plurality of ready and available power sources one or more of said sources capable of supplying electrical power independently of other sources, activated when the utility-sourced power is interrupted, and shut off when either the utility-sourced power is activated or the generator system is capable of supplying sufficient electrical power to operate said datacenter, said energy storage system being capable of supplying electricity with a capacity that exceeds the load required to operate the datacenter and other datacenter components during the time period of required operation of the energy storage system, wherein said energy storage system having a redundancy capability and design permitting each of its power sources to operate independently of one another in the event one of its power sources malfunctions or becomes inoperable;
- j) a generator system comprising a plurality of generators each capable of operating independently of one another and activated when the utility-sourced power is interrupted and shut off when the utility-sourced power resumes, the generator system being capable of supplying electrical power to satisfy the required load of the datacenter, wherein said generator system having a redundancy capability and design permitting generators to operate independently of one another in the event one of the plurality of generators malfunctions or becomes inoperable;
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.