发明名称 Cooling computing assets in a data center using hot and cold stacks
摘要 A data center includes a hot stack for exhausting heated air from the data center and a cold stack that cools intake air relative to the environment surrounding the data center. The temperature difference between air in the cold stack and the environment creates an airflow through the cold stack and into a cold aisle. This pressurizes the cold aisle, causing air to flow from the cold aisle across computing assets to a lower-pressure hot aisle. While flowing across the computing assets, the air absorbs heat generated by the computing assets. The temperature difference between the heated air and air outside the data center causes the heated air to flow through the hot stack and outside of the data center.
申请公布号 US9144181(B2) 申请公布日期 2015.09.22
申请号 US201213673895 申请日期 2012.11.09
申请人 Facebook, Inc. 发明人 Wiley Scott
分类号 H05K7/20;H01L23/473 主分类号 H05K7/20
代理机构 Fenwick & West LLP 代理人 Fenwick & West LLP
主权项 1. A data center system comprising: a plurality of computing assets included in a compartment, each computing asset having a first side oriented toward a cold aisle and having a second side oriented toward a hot aisle, the hot aisle having a lower pressure relative to the cold aisle so that air flows from the cold aisle to the hot aisle across the computing assets; a cold stack coupled to the cold aisle and comprising a cooling system, the air from outside the data center system entering the cold stack through an input and being cooled by the cooling system to a temperature lower than a temperature of the air outside the data center system, the cold stack having a height sufficient to cause air to flow through the cold stack when there is a temperature difference between the cooled air in the cold stack and the air outside the data center system, the rate of the air flow through the cold stack based on the height; a hot stack coupled to the hot aisle via an opening, the hot stack extending outside of the data center and having a height from the opening sufficient to, at a temperature difference between a temperature of air in the hot aisle and a temperature of the air outside to the data center, create a pressure difference that that causes air to flow from the hot aisle through the opening and into the hot stack.
地址 Menlo Park CA US