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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2016
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Anand Ramesh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jimmy Clidaras, Los Altos, CA (US);

Christopher G. Malone, MountainView, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H05K 5/00 (2006.01); H05K 7/00 (2006.01); H05K 7/20 (2006.01); F01K 19/10 (2006.01); F01D 15/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/20745 (2013.01); F01D 15/10 (2013.01); F01K 19/10 (2013.01); F05D 2220/31 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for providing for conditioning of a computer data center includes supplying a working fluid from a common fluid plane to a plurality of power/cooling units distributed across a data center facility in proximity to electronic equipment that is distributed across the data center facility; converting the working fluid into electric power and cooling capacity at each of the plurality of power/cooling units; and supplying the electric power to a common electric power plane serving a plurality of racks of the electronic equipment in the data center facility and being served by a plurality of the power/cooling units in the data center facility, wherein the common fluid plane serves at least 10 percent of the power/cooling units in the data center facility and the common electric power plane serves at most 5 percent of the electronic equipment in the data center facility.


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