Patent ID: 8672732

Claim:
A system for cooling a data center having a volume of space designed to house a plurality of electronic equipment racks, each equipment rack being adapted to support at least one piece of electronic equipment and including a housing having a front, a back, two sides, a bottom and a top, the distance between the two sides of the housing of each equipment rack defining a width of the housing of the equipment rack, the housing of each equipment rack having an industry-standard width, the system comprising: at least one cooling rack comprising a housing having a front, a back, two sides, a bottom and a top, the distance between the two sides of the housing of the cooling rack defining a width of the housing of the cooling rack, the width of the housing of the cooling rack being one-half the width of each of the plurality of equipment racks, the cooling rack being constructed and arranged to be positioned next to the equipment rack in such a manner that a side of the cooling rack is adjacent to a side of the equipment rack; and cooling system components supported by the housing.