Abstract:
A data center cooling system having electrical power generation, which utilizes heat generated by servers to simultaneously cool the data center and generate electrical power. Taking into account the design of the data center and cooling allows heat to dissipate naturally, which by design permits a turbine to rotate thereby generating electrical power from a generator. Using the fundamental phenomena of compressed hot air rising and cool air sinking in a cyclical approach is a force multiplier using the heat energy of the data center against the natural use of elevation temperatures. Variations between the differences in energy amount in the looping cycle of the close loop system allows for a negative power usage effectiveness.

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     1. Field of the Invention 
     The present invention relates generally to electrical power generation and more specifically to data center cooling system having electrical power generation, which utilizes heat generated by servers to cool the data center and generate electrical power. 
     2. Discussion of the Prior Art 
     The advent of the computer desktop brought about opportunities and freedoms as well latitude in personal and work time. During the decade of the eighties and nineties, the exponential growth of desktops started to acclaim to everyday life. Education started to use computers for teaching on hardware and software while in the business world computers started to appear to increase productivity. As computers became the norm in everyday life, they started to get more sophisticated which lead to the next step in computer technology, network connectivity. 
     As a result of the computer network, the logarithmic growth allow society to have freedoms and receive a better quality of life. The next step in computer technology was the interconnection of networks; as a result, the internet came into play. Now with the internet, networks could connect via new software and hardware technologies. The next step brought upon the spread of the internet was the data center, which nowadays is the where most of the information and data that is the internet resides. Broadband, Wi-Fi and cellular technology now allows mobile users to move about and request data from these data centers, which in kind has led to an exponential growth of data centers all over the world. Due to the exponential growth in size, one aspect which has contributed to a major problem is the use of energy for cooling large arrays of rack servers. Although problems with security, location, and size are a major factor, companies have tried to promote consolidating of solutions to their users, as a way to provide a green data center. The use of virtualization, co-location, and use of the natural ability of using nature as for cooling aspect of data centers. The data center of today still has the fundamental task of targeting the lowest power usage effectiveness in their business model. 
     A fundamental inability of the grouping of servers in a rack enclosure is the dismal approach of force fanning in order to expel heat energy from within the server rack. The approach of placing multiple servers in series in a horizontal plane culminates in adding additional fans on the server rack enclosure and cooling apparatuses providing the force cooling. This fundamental approach adds to the amount of energy require, not only because heat is dissipated in the horizontal plane, which is counterintuitive to the natural phenomena of heated air to move naturally up. 
     Yet another approach to removal of heat accumulated by few hundred to thousands of servers is the use of green energy. This approach takes into effect by using the natural thermal conditions of air and water in certain geographical locations. This approach takes into account the seasonal times, whereas the cold air of the winter increases the efficiency by naturally cooling a data center. In addition, use of hydropower as a means of using the power derive as a fundamental approach of using green energy of hydropower as an acceptable approach. Although, both approaches are viable, they neglect to take into account the use of cool air during seasons only. In addition, the use of hydropower is viable as long as the power is continuous, although due to climate changes or droughts not all locations are able to use hydropower on a twenty-four hour a day, three hundred sixty five days of the year for years onward. 
     Recently another approach of cooling data centers or dissipating the heat accumulated by hundreds to thousands of servers in a data center is the use of immersion cooling. Although, not a novel approach the immersion of electronic motherboard servers and related equipment and dipping them in a liquid solution does alleviates the heat from accumulating at the sources, it has to take into account that not all servers are made alike specifically with the materials of all electronic components. Other fundamental shortcomings of immersion cooling is the limitation to using disk drives whereby a cooling liquid solution could be catastrophic if the particular hard disk at a particular time being use is open. Another fundamental hurdle is the movement physically of servers and racks from use for maintenance or malfunction; it is not as easy as moving the servers or components in an open-air room. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     Accordingly, besides the objects and advantages of the present invention to provide a production of energy with the heat obtain through electrical conductivity and processing by servers, is an object of the present invention to produce electricity generated by the heat accumulated by the servers and use the difference in temperature with air within the close loop system. As the heat generated by the servers in the silos, it will be use with cold air on an opposite side of the close loop. The cold air of the close loop system is obtain by the location of a condenser in an elevated location where the temperature is much colder than at the silos. The close loop system therefore will allow the cyclical movement of the air within the close loop. 
     Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide an arrangement of one, or more than one silo, preferably underground. The silos will allow the server racks to have a set of servers align vertically without server cases. The servers will permit the flow of air upward and with use of the evaporator oval design to move the heated air to the thermal vents. Hence, an advantage of the present invention allows the free movement of heated air by the servers to move freely within the server racks towards the silo encapsulation wall without the use of force fanning present today in server farms. 
     Thereof, it is an object of the present invention to provide a consolidated thermal line whereby the accumulation of compress hot air can reside under pressure. Therefore, the accumulated pressurized compress hot air naturally flows upward through a main. The compress hot air under pressure is then cooled by a heat exchanger at an elevation whereby the natural ambient cools the air inside of the heat exchanger. Hence, an advantage of the present invention allows for the compress hot air flowing naturally towards the heat exchanger to cool the compress hot air residing inside of it. The design and elevation of the heat exchanger dissipates the heat through its design and the natural flow of air passing through its condenser plates. The heat exchanger eliminates the need for air mass movement through force fanning as such the case in present day data centers. 
     Yet, it is an object of the present invention to provide cold condense compress air under pressure to move downward in elevation. The cold condense compress air under pressure therefore is far denser than the air moving upwards before staging in the heat exchanger. The density of the cold condense compress air naturally flows downward with force as it is push by the air moving towards the heat exchanger and the natural order of cold air to drop downwards. The natural phenomena of fast moving cold condense compress air moves down the elevation line; therefore, it is advantages of the present invention to utilize the fast movement of the cold condense compress air to provide kinetic energy on a turbine and generator residing inside the thermal energy converter. 
     Yet, it is an object of the present invention to provide an increase in density by a pressurize line that increases the pressure of the air in the system, therefore the cold condense compress air moving downward kinetic energy increases. Therefore, it is an advantage of modifying the air density in the system in order to take advantage of the increase in energy as denser air retains when heated and releases when changing to a colder temperature. In consequence, the amounts of energy in heat absorb from electrical productivity by the air in the system and the opposite amount of release in consequence of the cold temperature in an elevated region reacts as a force multiplier. 
     Thereof, it is an object of the present invention to use the pressure line to change the composition of the air, therefore to change the chemistry, in order to decrease or increase the humidity of the gaseous compound. In consequence, the object is also change the chemistry in order to increase or decrease energy transfer of the gaseous compound. In addition, it is the object of the pressure line to change the chemistry of the gaseous compound in order to change the speed of extraction of energy from the servers. In a compounded manner, it is an advantage of the present invention to change the rate of energy production from the system through the variations in chemistry of the gaseous compound in the system. 
     Furthermore, it is an object of the present invention to produce its own energy from the differential in temperature from the silos to the heat exchanger. As the amount of energy from the silos that accumulates moves through the system is accelerated due to the natural phenomena of compress hot air to rise, and the natural effect of the heat exchanger to discharge the heat energy, force multiply the accelerated of pressurize cold condense compress air to move downward to the thermal energy converter, it is therefore an advantage of the present invention to create electrical energy from its own source unlike prior art. It is in effect that the present invention can generate electrical power for use internally back to the servers and related electrical components, or use the electricity generated to a foreign local. The advantage of generating its own power further reduces the power usage effectiveness of the data center. Under ideal circumstances whereas the amount of heat energy provided by the servers is far in amount in energy content to the opposing air at higher elevations and in particular the heat exchanger that the amount of energy use in the data center is exceeded by the amount of energy in electrical power produce therefore attributing to a negative power usage effectiveness. 
     In so far, it is an object of the present invention to recycle the downward cold condense compress air and move it back to the silos. Therefore the design allows small pituitary lines to force air onto the evaporators align with the server racks, while the rest of the cold condense compress air moves from below the silos. Therefore it is an advantage of the present invention to recycle the air in the system by natural means as oppose to prior art whereas recycle air is by means of force. The natural phenomena of compress hot air to rise promotes a suction force thereby creating a natural force which recycles the energy in the air mass as it completes a full circle inside the semi-hermetic air line. 
     In so far, an object of the present invention is to reduce greenhouse gases by using heat energy byproduct to produce its own energy for the data center internal use and to export an excess amount to other places. Therefore, an advantage of the present invention is to take advantage of its own energy production from the heat energy produce and reduce the total amount of electrical energy use by the data center in order to reduce anthropogenic human influence on the environment. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  is a side view of servers without a case; aligned parallel to each other sideways on two rail rods. 
         FIG. 2  is a set of servers aligned parallel to each other sideways on rail rods with evaporator coolers located above and below the set of servers. 
         FIG. 3  a side view section of a silo exemplifying how the server rod-configure racks are align. 
         FIG. 4  shows the main line where each silo connects and sends the cumulative heated air mass towards the next stage towards the thermal line. 
         FIG. 5  is a view of the outdoor condenser. 
         FIG. 6  is a diagram of the present invention process. 
         FIG. 7  is the thermal energy converter receiving cold condensed compressed air mass coming from the outdoor condenser. 
         FIG. 8  is a bottom part of the present invention where the cool condense air sinks before moving towards the server silos. 
         FIG. 9  is a cut view of the command &amp; control room and data center silo. 
         FIG. 10  is a cut side view of the pressure chamber and a silo. 
         FIG. 11  block diagram of the shrinking in size of comparing a traditional data center in comparison to state of the art technologies coming into use and the comparison the new art of which is the present invention. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
     Various aspects in detail of the present invention are shown in the following description in accordance with the present invention. In accordance with the design of data centers one of the biggest obstacles is to remove heat energy that accumulates with time. The present invention will show not only how to remove heat energy from a building but also to use the heat with various proven anomalies use in advantage towards producing power from the heat and natural occurrence of the absence of heat present in high terrestrial elevations. 
       FIG. 1  is a close-up end view of a plurality of servers  100  aligned at ninety-degree angles in order to let the natural occurrence of heat to release upward. Natural flow of heat emanating from the plurality of servers  100  will create server thermals  102  to move upward. The motherboard  101  having all electronic subcomponents will conduct heat from electrical activity. Having a plurality of servers  100  in the previously mentioned configuration allows heat to move upward along the plurality of servers  100 , which are retained between a pair of server rails  103 . 
       FIG. 2  is a side view of a server rack  104  with a plurality of servers  100 , which together create a pocket of heat of which with natural occurrence allows for an accumulation of server rack thermal  105  to naturally dissipate upward. A special design evaporator  109  with an oval bottom pushes the server rack thermal  105  to the sides onto thermal vents  113  which in turn pushes the heat outward from the server rack  104 . The evaporator  109  top is equally oval as the bottom half, which in turn has several capillary openings  110  that allow cool air  106  to slip out coming from the cool air line  107 . In order to prevent the natural occurrence of heat from accumulating, the evaporator  109  resides on top of the server rack  104  and another will reside below the server rack  104  in order to introduce the cool air  106  to substitute the departing server rack thermal  105  air. The server rack thermal  105  air that departs outward through the thermal vents  113  gradually accumulates on the sides that together with more air that is heated coming from other thermal vents  113  accumulates on the sides. The left side thermal  112  and the right side thermal  108  gradually accelerate in speed upward within the silo encapsulation wall  115 . This process perpetuates the movement of heated air by creating a coriolis effect within the silo encapsulation wall  115 . 
       FIG. 3  is a side view of multiple server racks  104  and evaporators  109 . Together align in that sequence in accordance to  FIG. 3 , which permits a strong rapid movement of venting air. In  FIG. 3  coming from the bottom side, a strong wind pattern perpetually moves heated air upward. At the bottom of  FIG. 3  a server rack bracket  111  sustains the server rack  104  and the thermal vents  113  of which in turn the server rack brackets  111  also serve as a deterrence from letting the server rack thermal  105  and the cool air  106  from moving sporadically. Therefore, the server rack brackets  111  keep the movement of air uniformly moving through the thermal vents  113 . Having multiple server racks  104  and evaporators  109  in accordance with  FIG. 3 , the left side thermal  112  and the right side thermal  108  will move rapidly towards the top whereby an air spoiler  117  resides. The silo encapsulation walls  115  will prohibit the fast moving heated air from venting other than upward. On top of the air spoiler  117 , compressed hot air  118  will accumulate of which then will leave onto another step in the process. The air spoiler includes a top with a convex or outwardly curving outer surface. Surrounding the silo encapsulation walls  115  is on a side is the access space  114 , which is used for letting personnel to work on the servers and pertinent mechanics. The access space roof  116  is the limit between the silo encapsulation walls  115  and the silo wall  119 . Keeping the whole structure within the silo encapsulation walls  115  from collapsing with its own weight are metal beams holding them in place. 
       FIG. 4  shows another step in the process whereby the compressed hot air  118  accelerates to the top of a primary silo  121 , in a multi-silo design. At the top of the primary silo  121  is the primary heat accumulator  120 , which is the location onto where the compress hot air  118  accumulates. A secondary silo  122  with secondary silo compress hot air  123  will also have a secondary heat accumulator  124 . At the left of  FIG. 4  is a tertiary silo  125  also with tertiary silo compress hot air  126 . Together the primary accumulator  120  with the secondary heat accumulator  124  in conjunction with a tertiary heat accumulator  127  will create even greater compress hot air pressure in the thermal line  128 . 
       FIG. 5  is a heat exchanger  140  residing primarily at a top of a mountain whereby cold air resides. With reference to  FIG. 6 , the compressed hot air main  137  sends compress hot air  118  up to the heat exchanger  140 . The natural behavior of compress hot air  118  to move up accelerates through the compress hot air main  137  to the heat exchanger  140 . The compress hot air condenser entry  138  receives the compressed hot air  118  of which then passes through the condenser air entry  139 . As the compressed hot air  118  passes through the heat exchanger  140 , the compressed hot air  118  will cool and condense, as the temperature of the compressed hot air  118  will cool. As the ambient air with the natural occurrence of wind on top of a high elevation point the heat exchanger  140  is further cooled by condenser plates  141 . Once the compressed hot air  118  passes through the heat exchanger  140  it will turn to cold condensed compressed air  145 . The cold condense compress air  145  will pass through the condense air main exit  142  and out through the cold air condenser exit  143 . 
       FIG. 6  is a schematic diagram of the invention and process. As the cold condensed compressed air  145  leaves the heat exchanger  140 , the cold condensed compressed air  145  moves downward through a cold air main  144  downward to an air basement  148 . Before reaching the air basement  148 , the cold condensed compressed air  145  goes through the thermal energy converter  133 . In lieu of the cold condensed compressed air  145  passing inside the thermal energy converter  133 , a wind turbine  132  will create electric power  170 . The electric power  170  created will then pass through transmission lines  171  then to the distribution lines  172 . The distribution lines  172  allow for recycling of the electric power  170  back to the data center or to the local grid. 
     The natural movement of cold condensed compressed air  145  moves downward perpetuated by the circulatory motion of the compressed hot air  118  to rise and the cold condensed compressed air  145  to drop downward. From the air basement  148  the cold condensed compressed air  145  moves back to the primary silo  121 , the secondary silo  122 , and the tertiary silo  125 . At the middle of the diagram, the next step is the movement of the compressed hot air  118  as the cold condensed compressed air  145  has already heated by passing through the silos. The compressed hot air  118  passes through a thermal line  128  and onto the compressed hot air main  137  and onto the heat exchanger  140 . 
       FIG. 7  illustrates from top to bottom on how the incoming cold condensed compressed air  145  reaches the cold air compression spoiler  129  of which sends the cold condensed compressed air  145  to the coriolis point  131 . The coriolis point  131  creates a vortex like swirl due to the internal design. The pressurize cold condense compress air  145  that passes through the coriolis point  131  in turn helps accelerate the movement of a wind turbine  132  residing inside the thermal energy converter  133 . Turbine brackets  134  reside inside the thermal energy converter  133  of which has in addition a coriolis decompression point  135  that is a step in itself whereby the cold condense compress air  145  that passes accelerates the vortex like swirl through the cold air accumulation point  130  is compress again before entering the cold air compression spoiler  136 . 
       FIG. 8  illustrates how part of the invention process works. As the cold condensed compressed air  145  moves towards the air basement  148 , some of the cold condensed compressed air  145  moves through evaporator capillary tube lines  146 , which in turn are pushed by the cold condensed compressed air  145  behind coming through the cold air main  144 . The same cold condensed compressed air  145  passing through the evaporator capillary tube lines  146  are pulled in by convective forces of which is further perpetuated by the left side thermal  112  and the right side thermal  108  winds. The cold air main  144  reaches the air basement  148  at the bottom end. At the air basement  148  that is the lowest depth of the cycle a cold air condensate pool  149  of cold condensed compressed air  145  resides. A humidity control device  147  resides in the basement. The purpose of the humidity control device  147  is for controlling the amount of humidity in the cold condense compress air  145 . The air basement  148  being the deepest part of the process has a drain  151  for water condensation. The subterranean earth  150  is where the air basement  148  resides. Most of the cold condensed compressed air  145  which is not send through the evaporator capillary tube lines  146  passes onwards to the main valve  152 . Passing the main valve  152  is the primary silo right entry  153  and the primary silo left entry  154  which together are at the base of the primary silo  121 . The purpose of the primary silo right entry  153  and the primary silo left entry  154  is to receive the cold condense compress air  145 . Walls that make the primary silo  121  are the silo encapsulation wall  115  which is used to sustain in part the evaporators  109  in place in addition to receive the cold condense compress air  145  from the evaporator capillary tube lines  146 . An additional purpose of the silos encapsulation wall  115  in conjunction with the silo wall  119  is to sustain rapid cold condense compress air  145  at the lower level of the primary silo  121  and at the top most level of the silo compress hot air  118  in moving expeditiously and effortlessly. At left of  FIG. 8  is the secondary silo air valve  155  which is the valve for allowing cold condense compress air  145  to flow inward through the secondary silo air entry  157  an onto the secondary silo  122 . A tertiary silo air valve  156  allows the flow of cold condense compress air  145  into the tertiary silo  125  through the tertiary silo air entry  158 . 
       FIG. 9  is the primary silo  121  back again complementing almost a complete cycle coming from  FIG. 8 . In  FIG. 9  the cold condensed compressed air  145  coming from the air basement  148  is received as it passes through the server racks  104  and the air that did not came directly from the air basement  148  is receive through the evaporator  109 . The compressed hot air  118  coming from the server racks  104  is then forwarded upward through the thermal vents  113  as the compressed hot air  118  is accelerated upward by its temperature and the left side thermal  112  and the right side thermal  108 . On a left side of  FIG. 9  is the access space  114  which is kept pressurized together with compressed hot air  118  and the cold condensed compressed air  145  that circulates. Air  160  is introduced by a compressed air line  159  for the purpose of increasing the amount of air inside the circulatory system. As the air  160  is compressed, the air  160  increases in energy capacity as the energy in the air  160  is able to increase in force inside the thermal line  128  as the compressed hot air  118  density is able to more forcefully through the compressed hot air main  137 . An observation window  161  lets personnel in the command &amp; control room  163  observe the primary silo  121 . A command &amp; control station  162  lets users oversee operations. 
       FIG. 10  shows an open view of the primary silo  121  with silo encapsulation wall  115  that controls in part, the movement of the left side thermal  112 . The server rack bracket  111  together with the silo encapsulation wall  115  and the thermal vents  113  allow for rapid movement of the compress hot air  118 . Left of the access space  114  is a compression room  165  with a primary silo door  164  that allows access to the access space  114 . The compression room  165  also has a compression room entry  166  for entry to the compression room  165 . The purpose of the compression room  165  is to equalize the air  160  in order to allow personnel to enter the primary silo  121 . 
       FIG. 11  illustrates the comparison of a traditional data center  167  area in space in comparison to a novel data center  168  which is smaller in area due to use of state of the art technologies and process. At the bottom of the illustration in  FIG. 11  is the new art  169  as is in this invention an illustration of how much space is area is taken as most of the art in this invention is vertical in application. 
     While particular embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, it will be obvious to those skilled in the art that changes and modifications may be made without departing from the invention in its broader aspects, and therefore, the aim in the appended claims is to cover all such changes and modifications as fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention.