Patent ID: 9125327
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: H05K

Abstract:
1. A method of cooling a data center, the method comprising: locating a plurality of fan coil units for cooling computers in a data center in substantially parallel rows, at least a portion of the rows comprising fan coil units arranged with corresponding rows of racks that support at least a portion of the computers, with a particular row of racks adjacent to and accessible from a human-occupiable workspace, and a particular row of fan coil units serving multiple rows of racks; positioning cooling fluid supply and return pipes proximate to the fan coil units in a plurality of fluidly isolatable sections; serving a first group of fan coil units within adjacent rows of fan coil units of the plurality of rows of fan coil units with a first section of the plurality of fluidly isolatable sections; and serving a second group of fan coil units within the adjacent rows of fan coil units of the plurality of rows of fan coil units with a second section of the plurality of fluidly isolatable sections different than the first section, where a particular section in the plurality of fluidly isolatable sections provides cooling fluid for more than one row of fan coil units independently of the other sections in the plurality of sections, and a particular row of fan coil units receives cooling fluid from more than one section in the plurality of fluidly isolatable sections independently of the other rows of fan coil units.