US 9,795,062 B1Granted

Portable data center for data transfer

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsPeter George Ross, Darin Lee Frink, Frank Charles Paterra

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Abstract

A portable data center includes a cooling system comprising a cooling circuit, one or more air plenums, and one or more air moving devices. The cooling circuit circulates a heat transfer fluid through a portion of the cooling circuit that passes through the one or more air plenums. The heat transfer fluid that passes through the one or more air plenums cools air flowing through the one or more air plenums via the one or more air moving devices. The cooling circuit also circulates the heat transfer through a separate portion of the portable data center where heat is rejected from the heat transfer fluid into the separate portion of the portable data center. In some embodiments, the air plenums and at least a portion of the cooling circuit are mounted in a sub-floor space between a platform within the portable data center and an outer structure of the portable data center.

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Dependent claims

A portable data center comprising:

racks of computing devices arranged in a row in a compute space of the portable data center;
a cold aisle on a first side of the row of racks in the compute space of the portable data center;
a hot aisle on a second side of the row of racks in the compute space of the portable data center;
and
a sub-floor cooling system mounted in a space in the portable data center between an outer structure of the portable data center and a platform of the portable data center, wherein the racks of computing devices are mounted on the platform of the portable data center,
wherein the sub-floor cooling system comprises:
an air plenum between the hot aisle and the cold aisle in the space between the outer structure of the portable data center and the platform of the portable data center;
a cooling circuit;
and
an air moving device configured to draw heated air from the hot aisle into the air plenum and direct cooled air into the cold aisle from the air plenum,
wherein the cooling circuit comprises a fluid moving device configured to circulate a heat transfer fluid between a portion of the cooling circuit mounted in the air plenum and a portion of the cooling circuit mounted in a portion of the portable data center that is separate from the compute space;
and
wherein the cooling circuit is configured to remove heat from air passing through the air plenum and reject heat into the separate portion of the portable data center that is separate from the compute space.

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