Patent ID: 8483569

Claim:
A data center comprising: a plurality of bottles, wherein each bottle has one or more data processing units (DPUs) configured to run a part or all of a data processing application, wherein at least a first of the plurality of bottles has an optical interface unit (OIU) configured to connect or disconnect the first bottle to or from an inter-bottle network of one or more free space optical communication links between the plurality of bottles in the data center, and wherein one of the bottles is a mobile bottle comprising a motion mechanism configured to move the mobile bottle within the data center; and a monitoring module configured to determine a current location of the mobile bottle within the data center, and wherein the one or more data processing units (DPUs) in the first bottle are communicatively linked by an intra-bottle network that is optically decoupled from the inter-bottle network based, at least in part, on the determined current location of the mobile bottle.