Patent ID: 9451731
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: H05K

Claim Text:
1. A method of manipulating components of a cooling system of a data center of the type comprising rows of equipment racks, the method comprising: providing components for the cooling system including one or more sources of coolant adapted to distribute coolant, one or more cooling racks, and flexible tubing to connect the one or more sources of coolant to the one or more cooling racks; designing a cooling system to address cooling needs in the data center, including selecting components for the cooling system; assembling the components for the cooling system in the data center; positioning one or more cooling racks within a row of equipment racks so that a cooling rack is positioned in between two equipment racks; operating the cooling system; identifying hot spots within the data center; and adjusting the location of one or more cooling racks within the row of equipment racks by removing a cooling rack that is positioned in between two equipment racks in the data center and moving the cooling rack to another position in between two other equipment racks in the data center based on the indentified hot spots in the data center.