Energy-generating fluid distribution module for servers

A cooling system comprising:

• one or more cold plates adapted to be thermally coupled to a corresponding one of one or more heat-generating components in a piece of information technology (IT) equipment, each cold plate having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet;
• a fluid distributor including:
• a hot manifold including a hot chamber fluidly coupled to one or more fluid return inlets and a main fluid return outlet,
• a cold manifold including a cold chamber fluidly coupled to a main fluid supply inlet and one or more fluid supply outlets, and
• a thermoelectric device sandwiched between the hot manifold and the cold manifold so that the thermoelectric device is in thermal contact with the hot chamber and in thermal contact with the cold chamber;
• and
• one or more cooling loops formed by fluidly coupling at least one of the one or more cold plates to the cold chamber though a fluid supply outlet and to the hot chamber through a fluid return inlet.

A rack comprising:

• one or more compartments adapted to receive IT equipment, wherein at least one of the one or more compartments is adapted to receive a power supply unit (PSU), at least one of the one or more compartments is adapted to receive a battery backup unit (BBU), and at least one of the one or more compartments is adapted to receive a server including a power board and a liquid cooling system with a fluid distributor, the fluid distributor including:
• a hot manifold including a hot chamber fluidly coupled to one or more fluid return inlets and a main fluid return outlet,
• a cold manifold including a cold chamber fluidly coupled to a main fluid supply inlet and one or more fluid supply outlets, and
• a thermoelectric device sandwiched between the hot manifold and the cold manifold so that the thermoelectric device is in thermal contact with the hot chamber and in thermal contact with the cold chamber;
• a main rack busbar adapted to electrically couple the PSU to the BBU and to the power board of the server;
• and
• an auxiliary rack busbar adapted to electrically couple the thermoelectric device to the BBU.