DATACENTER UTILIZING MODULAR INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS AND REDUNDANCY PROTECTION FROM FAILURE

摘要

A datacenter housing servers, computers, data storage devices, telecommunications and related equipment for storing and accessing large amounts of data on a continuous, uninterrupted and reliable basis, which is provided with a supporting system or infrastructure for supplying power and cooling to the datacenter, which involves equipment primarily contained in modules situated outside the building that houses the primary computer and server equipment, whereby said supporting system or infrastructure is designed with redundant equipment, connections, and controls to avoid any single point of potential failure.

主权项

1. A datacenter for providing continuous and secure access and storage for data, said datacenter comprising:
a facility for housing computers, servers and associated computer and telecommunications equipment; and an infrastructure support system for providing electrical power and cooling for said facility, said infrastructure support system primarily situated outside said facility, said electrical power infrastructure comprising equipment and containers or modules containing equipment, said electrical power infrastructure comprising:
a) a primary switchboard module containing a switchboard or switchgear and a plurality of automatic transfer switches (ATS);b) a secondary switchboard module containing a switchboard or switchgearc) two or more generators for generating electrical powerd) two or more transformerse) two or more uninterruptible power system (UPS) modules each containing one or more UPS units and energy storage devices, wherein utility-sourced electrical power flows to a primary transformer and then to a primary switchboard module containing a main or primary switchboard, from which electrical power flows to a plurality of automatic transfer switches (ATS) in a switchboard module which subsequently transfers electrical power to one or more UPS systems within one or more UPS modules, said UPS systems distributing electrical power to the facility and other systems of the datacenter; wherein, if there is a loss in utility-sourced electrical power, one or more ATS units within a switchboard container is capable of detecting the loss of utility power and sensing alternative available power sources in the infrastructure and is capable of carrying out steps to transfer the load to one or more available alternative sources of electrical power; wherein if there is a loss in utility-sourced electrical power, said primary switchboard is capable of receiving electrical power from a primary generator source in the infrastructure; wherein said secondary switchboard in a secondary switchboard module, is capable of being activated by an ATS in a switchboard module, said secondary switchboard capable of receiving utility-sourced electrical power from a secondary transformer that bypasses the primary transformer and primary switchboard, said secondary switchboard also capable of receiving electrical power from a reserve generator source which bypasses the primary switchboard and is capable of transferring electrical power to one or more automatic transfer switch units; wherein said automatic transfer switch units in said primary switchboard module is capable of transferring electrical power along alternative pathways to one or more uninterruptible power systems; wherein said infrastructure contains redundancies in equipment, pathways and connections to possess no single point of potential failure in the availability of electrical power for operating the facility; wherein the capacity of the infrastructure electrical power system based on utility-sourced electrical power exceeds the load of the facility and the cooling system for the facility and the capacity of the infrastructure electrical power system based on non-utility sourced electrical power exceeds the critical load for the operation of computer-related and telecommunications-related equipment in the facility.