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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Timothy J. Chainer, Putnam Valley, NY (US);
Pritish R. Parida, Fishkill, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A data center cooling system is operated in a first mode, has an indoor portion wherein heat is absorbed from components in the data center by a heat transfer fluid, and has an outdoor heat exchanger portion and a geothermal heat exchanger portion. The first mode includes ambient air cooling of the heat transfer fluid in the outdoor heat exchanger portion and/or geothermal cooling of the heat transfer fluid in the geothermal heat exchanger portion. Based on an appropriate metric, a determination is made that a switch should be made from the first mode to a second, different, mode; and, responsive thereto, the data center cooling system is switched to the second mode. The second mode includes at least another of ambient air cooling of the heat transfer fluid in the outdoor heat exchanger portion and geothermal cooling of the heat transfer fluid in the geothermal heat exchanger portion.