Patent ID: 8707095
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G06F,H05K

Abstract:
1. A datacenter for providing continuous and secure access and storage for data, said datacenter comprising: a facility for housing computer-related and telecommunications-related equipment; and an infrastructure support system comprising electrical power infrastructure for providing electrical power for said facility, said infrastructure support system primarily situated outside said facility, said electrical power infrastructure comprising equipment and containers or modules containing said equipment, said equipment of said electrical power infrastructure comprising: a) a primary switchboard module containing a main or primary switchboard or switchgear and a plurality of automatic transfer switch (ATS) units; b) a secondary switchboard module containing a secondary switchboard or switchgear; c) two or more generators for generating electrical power including a primary generator and a reserve generator; d) two or more transformers including a primary transformer and a secondary transformer; and e) two or more uninterruptible power system (UPS) modules each containing one or more of UPS units and energy storage devices, wherein utility-sourced electrical power flows to said primary transformer and then to said main or primary switchboard of said primary switchboard module, from which electrical power flows to one or more of said plurality of ATS units in said primary switchboard module, said primary switchboard module subsequently transferring electrical power to one or more of said UPS units within one or more UPS modules, said UPS units distributing electrical power to the facility and other systems of the datacenter, wherein, if there is a loss of utility-sourced electrical power, one or more of said plurality of ATS units is capable of detecting the loss of utility-sourced electrical power and sensing alternative available electrical power sources in said electrical power infrastructure and is capable of carrying out steps to transfer the load to one or more of said available alternative sources of electrical power, wherein, if there is a loss of utility-sourced electrical power, said primary switchboard is capable of receiving electrical power from said primary generator in said electrical power infrastructure, wherein said secondary switchboard said secondary switchboard module is capable of (i) being activated by any of the ATS units in said primary switchboard module, (ii) receiving utility-sourced electrical power from said secondary transformer that bypasses said primary transformer and said primary switchboard, and (iii) receiving electrical power from said reserve generator which bypasses said primary switchboard and is capable of transferring electrical power to one or more ATS units, wherein said ATS units in said primary switchboard module are capable of transferring electrical power along alternative pathways to one or more UPS units, wherein said infrastructure support system contains redundancies in equipment, pathways and connections to possess no single point of potential failure in the availability of electrical power for operating at least some of the computer-related and telecommunications-related equipment in the facility, and wherein a capacity of the electrical power provided by said electrical power infrastructure based on utility-sourced electrical power exceeds the electrical load required by the facility and the capacity of the electrical power infrastructure based on non-utility-sourced electrical power exceeds a critical load required to operate the computer-related and telecommunications-related equipment in the facility.