Patent ID: 8472183

Claim:
A data center, comprising: a rack row comprising one or more racks, the rack row comprising a cold aisle-side and a hot aisle-side; one or more computer systems mounted in at least one of the racks; a cold aisle on the cold aisle-side of the rack row; a hot aisle on the hot aisle-side of the rack row; an air handling system configured to move air from the cold aisle on the cold aisle-side of the rack row through the one or more computer systems in the at least one rack and exhaust air from the one or more computer systems into the hot aisle on the hot aisle-side of the rack row; and one or more rack power distribution units mounted on the cold aisle-side of the rack row; wherein at least one of the computer systems comprises: one or more input/output connectors facing the cold aisle-side of the rack row; one or more power input connectors facing the cold aisle-side of the rack row; and one or more power supply air inlets facing the cold aisle-side of the rack row.