Patent ID: 7660121

Claim:
A cooling system comprising: at least one cooling station for facilitating cooling of at least one electronics rack of a data center, each electronics rack of the at least one electronics rack comprising an air inlet side and an air outlet side, the air inlet and air outlet sides respectively enabling ingress and egress of external air, each cooling station of the at least one cooling station being separate and freestanding from at least one respective electronics rack when the at least one electronics rack is in operative position adjacent thereto, and being configured for disposition of the air outlet side of the at least one respective electronics rack adjacent thereto for cooling egressing air from the at least one respective electronics rack, and each cooling station comprising: a frame structure separate and freestanding from the at least one electronics rack; an air-to-liquid heat exchange assembly supported by the frame structure, the air-to-liquid heat exchange assembly including an inlet configured to couple to a coolant supply line and an outlet configured to couple to a coolant return line to facilitate passage of coolant there through; wherein the air-to-liquid heat exchange assembly is sized to cool egressing air from the air outlet side of the at least one respective electronics rack before being expelled into the data center; and wherein the air-to-liquid heat exchange assembly is hingedly mounted to the frame structure to allow for access to the air outlet side of the at least one respective electronics rack when the at least one respective electronics rack is disposed in operative position with the air outlet side thereof adjacent to the cooling station for cooling egressing air therefrom before being expelled into the data center.