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Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 16, 2018
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Thomas R. Kowalski, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Christopher Gregory Malone, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ankit Somani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/20745 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for operating a data center include providing at least one fan coil unit operable to circulate a cooling airflow to a human-occupiable workspace of the data center; providing a plurality of computer racks arranged in one or more rows in the human-occupiable workspace; forming one or more warm air aisles between the one or more rows of the plurality of computer racks that are in fluid communication with an inlet of the fan coil unit through a warm air plenum, and also with an outlet of the fan coil unit through the human-occupiable workspace and the plurality of computer racks arranged in one or more rows; adjusting the associated electrical power density of one or more of the plurality of computer racks; and based on the adjustment, adjusting a characteristic of the data center.


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