Patent ID: 8839569

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a modular datacenter facility constructed with a set of building modules of different types of functionality to form an entire datacenter facility having a standardized pre-approved architectural design and layout, where each type of building module in the set has a specific collection of functionality associated with that type of building module, where each building module of the different types is a pre-engineered, standardized building block containing architectural features to allow easy configuration and integration with the other building modules that form the modular datacenter facility, where all instances of a particular building module with that type of functionality will have approximately a same floor plan and architectural design, where the modular datacenter facility houses computing systems, where the computing systems include servers and storage devices housed in hot and cool zones, routers and switches that transport data traffic between the servers as well as transport traffic to a world exterior to the modular datacenter facility, where an initial set of building modules can be built upon a parcel of land, and then as needs of space and additional capacity of the modular datacenter facility increase, then at a future point in time additional building modules of the different types can be rapidly added to the initial set of building modules; and thus, a data center facility transformation takes a step-by-step approach carried out over time through an addition of more building modules added to existing building modules, where the building modules of the different types use one or more connecting corridors architected into at least a first type of building module and corresponding aligned doorways between both building modules to interconnect two building modules adjacent and abutted to each other; where the set of building modules of different types of functionality includes a hardened-structure building module that includes a hardened shell of a building having connecting corridors in a form of one or more personnel or service corridors laid out between an interior wall of the hardened-structure building module and an exterior wall forming the hardened shell of the hardened-structure building module and where the additional building modules of the different types of functionality are designed to be rapidly added to the initial set of building modules, at least, because that each of these future additional modules are designed to interconnect with the initial modules via the connecting corridors.