Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Alan Donald Gillooly

Peter George Ross

John William Eichelberg

Matthew Thomas Phillips

Brock Robert Gardner

Michael Phillip Czamara

Andrew Robert Schulz

Robert David Wilding

Paul Andrew Churnock

Christopher Alon Goodnow

Sean Patrick Abbott

Geri-Ann Quinlivan

William Charles Bauerle

Matthew David Striffler

Serey Kim

A system for passively exhausting air from a structure includes at least one pair of modules arranged on a roof of the structure. Each module has an exhaust face on one side and a sloped surface on the opposite side, and can receive exhaust air that flows upward from inside the structure. The modules can be arranged in pairs facing one another, with one of the sloped surfaces facing a direction of an environmental flow of air, so that the environmental air can flow up the sloped surface of one module and down the sloped surface of the other module without impinging on the exhaust faces of either module. The pairs can also be arranged side-by-side in an array, which can be expanded with additional pairs of modules to exhaust from the structure at a greater rate.

Passive roof exhausting system

A data center can include at least one computing room, and at least one rack system disposed in the computing room. The rack system includes a rack housing and a plurality of computing devices mounted to the rack housing. The data center can further include a cooling system that includes at least one surface that is wetted with a liquid, and delivers source air across the at least one surface such that heat is transferred from the source air to the liquid so as to produce cold air. The cold air then flows into a cold air aisle and is received in the computing devices so as to cool the computing devices.

Cooling system for data center

A data center includes two or more rack computing systems and an air handling system. The rack computing systems may each include racks and computing devices mounted in the rack. The air handling system includes one or more air moving devices external to the one or more racks. The air moving devices create a negative pressure relative to ambient air at air inlets to the racks to draw air from the inlets and through computing devices in the racks.

Negative pressure air handling system

A trim cooling assembly provides a sensible trim cooling capability for intake air provided to a downstream computing pod that includes an air cooling system that provides cooling air to computer systems in the pod. The air cooling system can evaporatively chill received intake air to provide the cooling air. The trim cooling assembly is mounted externally to the computing pod and upstream of the air cooling system and includes one or more trim cooling units that can be individually controlled to provide adjustable sensible chilling of the intake air. The trim cooling units and an evaporative cooling unit in the air cooling system can be controlled to provide various levels of sensible and evaporative cooling to maintain conditions of air downstream of the evaporative cooling unit within certain ranges. Trim cooling units can be progressively activated and de-activated in stages to provide progressively adjusted sensible cooling.

Trim cooling assembly for cooling electronic equipment

A data center can include at least one computing room, and at least one rack system disposed in the computing room. The rack system includes a rack housing that at least substantially encapsulates an interior space, and a plurality of computing devices mounted to the rack in the interior space. The data center can further include a cooling system. The cooling system includes a conduit that is disposed in the interior space of the rack housing and a fluid that flows through the conduit, wherein heat is transferred from air in the interior space to the fluid to produce cooled air in the rack housing.

Cooling system for data center rack

A preheat damper preheats ambient air being directed to an air handling unit of a data center to mitigate ice accumulation caused by the ambient air. The ambient air can be preheated upstream of a mist eliminator, which removes moisture from the ambient air upstream of the air handling unit, to mitigate ice accumulation in the mist eliminator. The preheat damper directs exhaust air from an exhaust air plenum. The preheat damper can be adjusted based on the ambient temperature, and can be upstream of a return damper which directs exhaust air from the exhaust air plenum based on characteristics of the cooling air supplied to cool data center equipment. The return damper can be adjusted in counter-opposition with one or more intake dampers to maintain cooling air characteristics, and concurrently with the preheat damper to direct ambient air to the air handling unit through the exhaust air plenum.

Air handling unit intake air preheat system and method

A data center row infrastructure module enables rapid deployment of a computing room enclosure for computer systems that provides intake air circulation to, and exhaust air removal from, the computer systems in the enclosure. The data center row infrastructure module includes free-standing exhaust plenum structures encompassing opposite sides of the enclosure and a plenum module spanning a top end of the enclosure between the free-standing exhaust plenum structures. Each free-standing exhaust plenum structure includes an internal exhaust air plenum that directs exhaust air received from the enclosure through an exhaust air outlet on a top end of the free-standing exhaust plenum structure. The plenum module establishes a bottom end of a cooling air plenum above and separate from the enclosure and between the free-standing exhaust plenum structures. Some plenum modules can direct cooling air directly to the enclosure as intake air. Some plenum modules can mix cooling air with recirculated exhaust to provide the intake air.

Modular data center row infrastructure

Methods for and systems of controlling operation of one or more chillers in a primary-secondary chiller plant system. The chillers utilize a set point temperature that is based upon measuring a temperature of water at a supply side of the load on the secondary loop.

Controls solution for primary-secondary chiller plant

A system for cooling heat producing components in a building includes a duct coupled to a room of the building and one or more air moving devices. The duct includes a constricted section. The air moving devices move air through the constricted section of the duct such that water in the air is converted from water vapor to water droplets. The water droplets are carried downstream from the constricted section in a two-phase mixture comprising air and water.

Building level dehumidification and cooling

A data center includes two or more rack computing systems, a free cooling system, and an electrical power system. The free air cooling system includes air moving devices external to the rack computing systems. The electrical power system includes switchgear and one or more power panels. The switchgear receives power from a utility power feed. The power panels receive power from the switchgear. The power panels supply electrical power to the computing devices.

Data center with streamlined power and cooling

A method of operating a data center includes providing a first operating environment in a first portion of the data center and providing a second operating environment in a second portion of the data center. The first operating environment meets a first set of infrastructure specifications. The second operating environment meets a second set of infrastructure specifications. At least some of the infrastructure specifications of the second set of infrastructure specifications are less stringent than corresponding infrastructure specifications of the first set of one or more infrastructure specification.

Growing community of inventors

Auburn, WA, United States of America

Alan Donald Gillooly