Patent ID: 9696770
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A server cooling system comprising: an inside space defined by a floor, one or more lateral walls, and a roof; a flex-switch comprising one or more flexible building bridges; one or more utility farms coupled with the flex-switch; a PDU (power distribution unit) operably connected to the flex-switch; and a server POD, installed in the inside space, comprising one or more racks operably connected to the PDU; wherein after construction of the server cooling system, the flex-switch is modified so that the flex-switch is coupled with additional utility farms, one or more generator farms, and one or more UPS (uninterruptible power supply) farms via one or more components of the flex-switch responsive to determining, via a processor, a change to the server POD corresponding to a change from hosting a first application requiring availability of a first tier data center that the one or more utility farms are determined to be sufficient to handle to hosting a second application requiring availability of a second tier data center that the one or more utility farms combined with the additional utility farms, the one or more generator farms, and the one or more UPS farms are determined to be sufficient to handle.