Patent ID: 8833001

Claim:
A data center, comprising: a floor configured to support one or more rack computing systems; and a plurality of walls at least partially enclosing a fixed interior space of the data center, a portion of the interior space comprising a computing room, wherein the interior space comprises a length and a width, wherein the computing room is configured to hold at least one of the rack computing systems; wherein the plurality of walls comprise: a plurality of fixed exterior walls defining the fixed interior space of the data center; a pair of opposing parallel interior walls defining a width of the computing room within the width of the fixed interior space of the data center and each spanning the length of the fixed interior space from one of the fixed exterior walls at one end of the fixed interior space to another one of the fixed exterior walls at an opposite end of the fixed interior space; and one or more movable interior walls, wherein each of at least one of the one or more movable interior walls substantially spans the opposing parallel interior walls, wherein at least one of the one or more movable interior walls is configured to translate relative to at least the plurality of fixed exterior walls to increase or decrease a length of the computing room within the fixed interior space of the data center.