Patent ID: 11889630
Assignee: SWITCH, LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  F  G | IPC F  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A facility with an internal area separate from an outdoor environment, the internal area for maintaining electronic equipment disposed in a plurality of cabinet clusters, the facility comprising:
a building that includes an exterior load wall separating the internal area from the outdoor environment, the internal area containing a volume of air;
one or more wall openings in the exterior load wall;
a floor within the internal area on which the plurality of cabinet clusters are disposed;
a plurality of cabinets for holding the electronic equipment therein, the plurality of cabinets forming a plurality of rows, the plurality of rows forming the cabinet clusters, the cabinets arranged so that the electronic equipment disposed within the cabinets emit heated air from the cabinets;
one or more air conditioning units, located in the outdoor environment, that are configured to receive the heated air, condition the heated air to create cooled air, and emit the cooled air back into the internal area;
a warm air escape channel, within the building, that extends through the one or more wall openings that is configured to direct the heated air from the cabinets, through the one or more wall openings to the one or more air conditioning units; and
a cool air pathway within the building extending from the one or more air conditioning units through the one or more wall openings and towards the cabinet clusters to provide the cooled air to a cold aisle, wherein the cool air pathway comprises a plurality of air ducts structured to output the cooled air below a ceiling of the cold aisle, the ceiling being disposed opposite the floor.