Patent ID: 9563216
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G05F

Claim:
1. A method for managing power loads of a data center, comprising: electrically coupling a data center infrastructure power load and a data center information technology (IT) power load in a data center power distribution system having a specified power capacity, the infrastructure power load comprising a plurality of infrastructure power loads associated with at least one of a data center cooling system, a data center lighting system, or a data center building management system, and the IT power load comprising a plurality of IT power loads associated with a plurality of rack-mounted computing devices in the data center; determining that a predicted amount of the IT power load is about equal to or greater than a threshold power value; based on the determination, throttling the infrastructure power load to reduce a portion of the power capacity used by the infrastructure power load, wherein throttling the infrastructure power load comprises: based on throttling the infrastructure power load, increasing another portion of the power capacity available to the IT power load.