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US 9,869,982 B1Granted
Data center scale utility pool and control platform
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsJimmy Clidaras, Anand Ramesh, Christopher G. Malone
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Abstract
A system for providing cooled air to electronic equipment includes a cooling system arranged to provide cooling for computer systems in a data center that generate heat from electrical usage; one or more sensors for sensing an environmental condition near the data center; and a central control system programmed to allocate future compute demand for the data center as a function of the sensed environmental condition.
Claims23
A computer-implemented method for providing for conditioning of a computer data center, the method comprising:
- identifying outdoor ambient conditions in an outdoor area around the computer data center;
- determining, with a computer system, a level of susceptibility for air outside of the computer data center to accept heat generated by the computer data center;
- and
- automatically adjusting, with the computer system, a level of power delivered to electronic equipment in the computer data center based on the determined level of susceptibility for the air outside of the computer data center to accept heat from the computer data center, wherein automatically adjusting the level of power delivered to the electronic equipment in the computer data center comprises:
- identifying an expected demand for computing resources and determining that the expected demand can be met without exceeding a determined power allocation for the electronic equipment;
- determining that an allocated level of power delivery to the electronic equipment will cause cooling setpoints to be exceeded for the computer data center;
- and
- determining a time period for which the allocated level of power delivery to the electronic equipment will be allowed to exceed a cooling level of a cooling system for the computer data center.
5 more elements
A system for providing cooled air to electronic equipment, comprising:
- a cooling system arranged to provide cooling for computer systems in a data center that generate heat from electrical usage;
- one or more electronic sensors for sensing an outdoor environmental condition near the data center;
- and
- a central computer control system programmed to allocate future compute demand for the data center as a function of the sensed outdoor environmental condition, the central computer control system further programmed to automatically adjust a level of power delivered to the computer systems in the data center by:
- identifying an expected demand for computing resources and determining that the expected demand can be met without exceeding a determined power allocation for the computer systems;
- determining that an allocated level of power delivery to the computer systems will cause cooling setpoints of the cooling system to be exceeded for the data center;
- and
- determining a time period for which the allocated level of power delivery to the computer systems will be allowed to exceed a cooling level of the cooling system for the data center.
5 more elements
A system for providing cooled air to electronic equipment, comprising:
- a cooling system arranged to provide cooling for computer systems in a data center that generate heat from electrical usage;
- one or more electronic sensors for sensing an outdoor environmental condition near the data center;
- means for using information about the sensed outdoor environmental condition to allocate an amount of computer processing that information technology (IT) resources in the data center will take on;
- and
- means for automatically adjusting the level of power delivered to the IT resources in the data center by:
- identifying an expected demand for computing resources and determining that the expected demand can be met without exceeding a determined power allocation for the IT resources;
- determining that an allocated level of power delivery to the IT resources will cause cooling setpoints to be exceeded for the computer data center;
- and
- determining a time period for which the allocated level of power delivery to the IT resources will be allowed to exceed a cooling level of a cooling system for the computer data center.
6 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.