A method for designing and constructing a data center suspended in the sea

Abstract

The application discloses a design and construction method of a marine suspended data center, and belongs to the field of submarine data center construction. The method is used for designing and constructing the suspended data center through five parts, i.e. a pipe gallery shelter cluster, a cooling system, an anchoring system, a tension key system and a ballast lifting control system. The data center constructed by the method can be suspended at different depths in seawater, and is no longer limited to the seabed. By adjusting the height of the suspended center, the heat dissipation efficiency of the data center will be greatly improved. Compared with the submarine data center, the heat is dispersed into seawater at different depths, the heat diffusion is accelerated, and the method is more environmentally friendly.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The present application relates to the field of submarine data center construction, in particular to a method for designing and constructing a submarine suspended data center. BACKGROUND

[0002] The submarine data center is an important part of the new infrastructure, but there is no large data shelter cluster construction scheme that can completely solve this problem at present, and the engineering needs to cross different water depths of the sea, and the settlement control of various structures under complex geological conditions is a big difficulty in engineering construction, and the current research is relatively less.

[0003] Starting from the connection of the submarine suspended pipe gallery shelter cluster, the design and construction method of the data center is studied to solve the difficulties and problems of the submarine data center construction, and a method for designing and constructing a submarine suspended data center is proposed; the method can effectively solve the problem of connecting the submarine data center with the shore base, and has application value for the construction of the submarine data center. SUMMARY

[0004] The purpose of the present application is to overcome the above problems existing in the prior art and greatly improve the technical effect based on the prior art; for this purpose, the present application provides a method for designing and constructing a submarine suspended data center, which comprises:

[0005] (1) Connection of pipe gallery shelter cluster: a plurality of circular and square steel pipe structures are used to form the pipe gallery of the data center, and each pipe gallery is divided into a long axis and a short axis in the horizontal direction; the shelters are connected at both ends of the long axis of each pipe gallery to realize the cluster of the pipe gallery shelter;

[0006] (2) Arrangement of cooling system: the cooling system is arranged outside the data shelter, and the heat exchange between the seawater and the internal heat of the shelter is carried out by extracting seawater, and the seawater after heat exchange is discharged into the sea to achieve the purpose of cooling the shelter;

[0007] (3) Arrangement of mooring system: a plurality of mooring points are arranged at the top and bottom of the pipe gallery shelter cluster, the mooring points include: floating mooring points and submarine mooring points, the data center is fixed and suspended at the set position in the seawater through the cooperation of the floating mooring points and the submarine mooring points;

[0008] (4) Arrangement of tension key system: a tension key system is arranged at the corresponding position of the floating mooring point and the submarine mooring point, the tension key system is used to control the vertical movement of the pipe gallery shelter cluster to avoid excessive vertical movement acceleration;

[0009] (5) Arranging the ballast floatation control system: the ballast floatation control system of the data center is composed of multiple ballast modules; the pipe gallery external hanging type ballast system is adopted to uniformly arrange the ballast modules in two horizontal directions of the pipe gallery; each ballast module has an independent ballast control system and can be installed and removed at any time;

[0010] (6) The design method is: reasonably arranging the spacing of the data shelter according to the preset flow rate and the heat rate processed by the cooling system;

[0011] (7) The construction method is: realizing the installation of the pipe gallery shelter cluster assembly, the ballast system, the anchoring system, the cooling system and the tension key system through the corresponding devices of the methods of steps (1) to (5).

[0012] The pipe gallery shelter cluster comprises: first, arranging the data shelters in two directions of layers and planes at equal intervals; then, optimizing and determining the spacing in three directions according to the heat dissipation power of the data shelters; finally, connecting the data shelters and the pipe gallery in a flange connection manner; the flange connection is a mechanical method for connecting pipes and equipment; the multiple circular and square steel pipe structures constitute the pipe gallery of the data center, which is closed to prevent gas discharge.

[0013] The optimization and determination of the spacing in three directions according to the heat dissipation power of the data shelters comprise: a) establishing a CFD numerical model of heat diffusion according to the structural parameters of the pipe gallery shelter cluster; the structural parameters comprise the number, spacing, power and cooling of the shelters; b) taking different data shelter powers, cross-sectional flow rates and flow directions as boundary conditions of the heat diffusion model; c) calculating the heat carried away by the entire calculation area within a preset time; d) establishing an analysis database of different shelter length-width-height three-direction spacings, different data shelter powers, cross-sectional flow rates and flow directions and the heat carried away by the sea area; e) taking different shelter length-width-height three-direction spacings, different data shelter powers, cross-sectional flow rates and flow directions as inputs, establishing a neural network model with the heat carried away by the sea area as output; f) inputting all data in the analysis database for training to establish a neural network prediction model; g) collecting data of the sea area where the data center is built, including water depth, flow rate and flow direction; h) considering the intervals and step amounts of the shelter length-width-height three-direction spacings and the data shelter powers, cross-sectional flow rates and flow directions, considering all data combinations as neural network inputs to obtain heat data; i) evaluating the cluster utility of the shelter length-width-height three-direction spacings and the data shelter powers for all data sets satisfying the heat diffusion; j) taking the cluster utility satisfying a preset value as the optimization target.

[0014] The cooling system arranged outside the data shelter comprises a cooling system pointer radiator, the radiator is arranged outside the data shelter, the server cluster and the drainage pipeline are arranged inside the data shelter, the radiator exchanges heat with the heat inside the shelter by extracting seawater, and the seawater after heat exchange is discharged into the sea to achieve the purpose of cooling the shelter.

[0015] The floating mooring point comprises an anchor point, a mooring line, a buoy, a connecting device and a stabilizing device; and the seabed mooring point comprises a seabed anchor and a mooring line.

[0016] The tension key system comprises: the seabed mooring point is arranged at the position of the seabed anchor and the seabed joint device; and the floating mooring point is arranged at the position on the floating platform.

[0017] The ballast float control system comprises: the ballast module is installed on each layer of the transverse and longitudinal pipe gallery, the installed ballast module comprises a fixed weight ballast module and a ballast module capable of injecting water and air control; the fixed weight ballast module and the ballast module capable of injecting water and air control are arranged on the pipe gallery in a layered and uniform manner; the ballast module dynamically controls the ballast module capable of injecting water and air according to a preset buoyancy coefficient; the overall water injection load of the water injection ballast module is dynamically controlled to control the entire pipe gallery shelter cluster to meet the preset anti-floating coefficient, so that the pipe gallery shelter cluster can sit on the bottom under extreme wind and wave conditions, but not sink into the soil to ensure stable seawater heat transfer and stable operation of the pipe gallery shelter cluster.

[0018] The ballast float control system further comprises: the ballast module capable of injecting air of the ballast float control system, the floating mooring point and the tension key system jointly adjust the rising of the data center; the ballast module capable of injecting water of the ballast float control system, the seabed mooring point and the tension key system jointly adjust the sinking of the data center.

[0019] The construction method comprises: 1) pipe gallery shelter cluster structure assembly: assembling the bottom layer shelter and the corridor in the dry dock; towing the one layer shelter and the corridor in water to the deep water area; installing the ballast float control system, installing the ballast module on each layer of the pipe gallery; and reserving the controller for final installation on the top; using the shore control crane to hoist the interlayer pipe gallery, and then hoisting the one layer shelter and the corridor; repeating the hoisting operation until the entire pipe gallery shelter cluster is completed; 2) anchor mooring system construction: connecting multiple ropes to the reserved rope connection points on the side of the entire pipe gallery shelter cluster; pre-installing the sea anchor body and connecting the anchor rope; and connecting the rope to the rope concentrated connection point of the pipe gallery; 3) sea installation of the tension key system: connecting the tension key to the corresponding pre-embedded part of the vertical pipe gallery, and fixing the tension key; the corresponding pre-embedded part comprises: the corresponding positions of the seabed mooring point and the floating mooring point.

[0020] The beneficial effects of the present application are:

[0021] This invention proposes a design and construction method for a floating data center in the sea. The advantages of this invention are that it provides a design and construction method for a floating data center in water; the data center can be suspended at different depths in seawater, no longer limited to the seabed; by adjusting the height of the suspension center, the heat dissipation efficiency of the data center will be greatly improved; compared to seabed data centers, dispersing heat to different depths of seawater accelerates heat diffusion and is more environmentally friendly. Attached Figure Description

[0022] Figure 1 : A flowchart of a method for designing and constructing a floating data center in the sea according to the present invention. Detailed Implementation

[0023] The specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings; it should be understood that the specific embodiments given herein are only for illustration and explanation of the present invention and cannot be used to limit the present invention.

[0024] like Figure 1 The flowchart shown is a design and construction method for a floating data center in the sea according to an embodiment of the present invention. The flowchart includes: Step S200, connecting the tube rack and container cluster: the data center tube rack is composed of multiple circular and square steel pipe structures, each tube rack is divided into a long axis and a short axis in the horizontal direction; containers are connected to both ends of the long axis of each tube rack to realize the cluster of tube rack and container; Step S201, arranging the cooling system: the cooling system is arranged outside the data container, and heat exchange is performed by extracting seawater and exchanging heat with the inside of the container, and the seawater after heat exchange is discharged into the sea to achieve the purpose of cooling the container; Step S202, arranging the mooring system: multiple mooring points are arranged at the top and bottom of the tube rack and container cluster, the mooring points include: floating mooring points and seabed mooring points, and the data center is fixed and suspended in a set position in the seawater by the cooperation of floating mooring points and seabed mooring points; Step S2 03. Deploy the tension key system: Deploy the tension key system at corresponding positions of the floating mooring point and the seabed mooring point. The tension key system is used to control the vertical movement of the tunnel cabin cluster and avoid excessive vertical acceleration. Step S204. Deploy the ballast lifting and floating control system: The ballast lifting and floating control system of the data center consists of multiple ballast modules. An external ballast system is adopted for the tunnel, and the ballast modules are evenly distributed in two horizontal directions of the tunnel. Each ballast module has an independent ballast control system, which can perform ballast installation and disassembly at any time. Step S205. The design method is to reasonably arrange the spacing of the data cabins according to the preset flow rate and the heat processing rate of the cooling system. Step S206. The construction method is to realize the assembly of the tunnel cabin cluster, the installation of the ballast system, the mooring system, the cooling system and the tension key system through the devices corresponding to the methods in steps S200 to S204.

[0025] Step S200, connecting the pipe gallery shelter cluster: the pipe gallery of the data center is composed of multiple circular and square steel pipe structures, each pipe gallery is divided into a long axis and a short axis in the horizontal direction; the shelters are connected at both ends of the long axis of each pipe gallery to realize the cluster of the pipe gallery shelter.

[0026] In the above embodiment, specifically, the pipe gallery shelter cluster method: first, the data shelters are arranged at equal intervals in two directions of layering and planar; then, the three-direction interval is optimized according to the heat dissipation power of the data shelters; finally, the data shelters and the pipe gallery are connected by flange connection; the flange connection is a mechanical method for connecting pipes and equipment; the pipe gallery of the data center is composed of multiple circular and square steel pipe structures, which includes that the pipe gallery of the data center is closed to prevent gas discharge; the data shelter layering refers to the arrangement of the data shelters on the pipe gallery, and the data shelter planar refers to the plane composed of the length and width of the data shelter; the three directions refer to the two directions of the data shelter planar plus the direction along the layering.

[0027] In the above embodiment, specifically, the method for optimizing the three-direction interval according to the heat dissipation power of the data shelter: a) establish a CFD numerical model of heat diffusion according to the structure parameters of the pipe gallery shelter cluster; the structure parameters include the number of shelters, interval, power, and cooling; b) use different data shelter power, cross-sectional flow rate, and flow direction as the boundary conditions of the heat diffusion model; c) calculate the heat carried away by the entire calculation area within a predetermined time; d) establish an analysis database of different intervals in the three directions of length, width, and height of the data shelter, different data shelter power, cross-sectional flow rate, and flow direction, and the energy carried away by the sea area; e) use different intervals in the three directions of length, width, and height of the data shelter, different data shelter power, cross-sectional flow rate, and flow direction as input to establish a neural network model, and use the heat carried away by the sea area as output; f) input all data in the analysis database for training to establish a neural network prediction model; g) collect data including water depth, flow rate, and flow direction of the sea area where the data center is built; h) consider the intervals and step amounts of the intervals of the three directions of length, width, and height of the shelter, data shelter power, cross-sectional flow rate, and flow direction, and consider all data combinations as input of the neural network to obtain heat data; i) evaluate the cluster utility of the three directions of length, width, and height of the shelter, and the power of the data shelter for all data sets that satisfy the heat diffusion; j) use the preset value of the cluster utility as the optimization target.

[0028] Step S201, arranging the cooling system: the cooling system is arranged outside the data shelter, which exchanges heat with the heat inside the shelter by pumping seawater, and discharges the seawater after heat exchange into the sea to achieve the purpose of cooling the shelter.

[0029] In the above embodiment, specifically, the cooling system refers to a radiator, and the radiator is arranged outside the data shelter; the server cluster and the drainage pipeline are arranged inside the data shelter; the radiator exchanges heat with the heat inside the shelter by extracting seawater, and the seawater after heat exchange is discharged into the sea to achieve the purpose of cooling the shelter.

[0030] Step S202, arranging the anchoring system: a plurality of mooring points are arranged at the top and bottom of the pipe gallery shelter cluster, and the mooring points include: floating mooring points and seabed mooring points. Through the cooperation of the floating mooring points and the seabed mooring points, the data center is fixed and suspended at a set position in the seawater.

[0031] In the above embodiment, specifically, the floating mooring point includes: an anchor point, a mooring line, a buoy, a connecting device and a stabilizing device; and the seabed mooring point includes: a seabed anchor and a mooring line.

[0032] Step S203, arranging the tension key system: the tension key system is arranged at the corresponding positions of the floating mooring points and the seabed mooring points, and the tension key system is used to control the vertical movement of the pipe gallery shelter cluster to avoid excessive vertical movement acceleration.

[0033] In the above embodiment, specifically, the position of the seabed mooring point where the tension key system is arranged is usually the seabed anchor and the seabed joint device; and the position of the floating mooring point where the tension key system is arranged is usually arranged on the floating platform.

[0034] Step S204, arranging the ballast lifting control system: the ballast lifting control system of the data center is composed of a plurality of ballast modules; a pipe gallery external hanging ballast system is used to uniformly arrange the ballast modules in two horizontal directions of the pipe gallery; each ballast module has an independent ballast control system and can be installed and removed at any time.

[0035] Specifically, the ballast modules are installed on the horizontal and vertical pipe galleries of each layer, and the installed ballast modules include fixed weight ballast modules and ballast modules capable of injecting water and air control; the fixed weight ballast modules and the ballast modules capable of injecting water and air control are uniformly arranged in layers on the pipe gallery; the ballast modules dynamically control the ballast modules capable of injecting water and air according to the preset buoyancy coefficient; the overall water injection load of the dynamically controlled water injection ballast modules is controlled to make the entire pipe gallery shelter cluster meet the preset anti-floating coefficient, so that the pipe gallery shelter cluster can sit on the bottom under extreme wind and wave conditions, but not sink into the soil to ensure stable seawater heat transfer and stable operation of the pipe gallery shelter cluster inside.

[0036] In the above embodiment, specifically, the ballast modules capable of injecting air of the ballast lifting control system, the floating mooring points and the tension key system jointly adjust the rising of the data center; and the ballast modules capable of injecting water of the ballast lifting control system, the seabed mooring points and the tension key system jointly adjust the sinking of the data center.

[0037] In the above embodiment, specifically, the air-injected ballast module provides the data center with upward buoyancy, the floating mooring point controls the data center to rise through the cable, and the tension key system controls the rising speed, and the three jointly regulate the rising of the data center platform.

[0038] In the above embodiment, specifically, the water-injected ballast module injects a predetermined amount of water according to the demand to provide the data center platform with a sinking force, the seabed mooring point controls the data center to sink through the cable, and the tension key system controls the sinking speed, and the three jointly regulate the sinking of the data center platform.

[0039] In the above embodiment, specifically, after rising to a certain height or sinking to a certain height, the floating mooring point and the seabed mooring point jointly act to fix the data center platform at a set water depth.

[0040] Step S205, the design method is: reasonably arranging the spacing of the data shelter according to the preset flow rate and the heat rate processed by the cooling system.

[0041] In the above embodiment, specifically, the spacing of the data shelter is optimized and reasonably arranged according to the method of step S200.

[0042] Step S206, the construction method is: realizing the assembly of the pipe gallery shelter cluster, the installation of the ballast system, the anchor mooring system, the cooling system and the tension key system through the devices corresponding to the methods of steps S200 to S204.

[0043] In the above embodiment, specifically, the construction method is: 1) pipe gallery shelter cluster structure assembly: assembling the bottom layer shelter and the corridor in the dry dock, and installing the radiator outside each shelter; towing the one-layer shelter and the corridor in water to the deep water area; installing the ballast floatation control system, and installing the ballast module on each layer of the pipe gallery; and reserving the controller for final installation on the top; using the shore control crane to hoist the pipe gallery between the layers, and then hoisting the one-layer shelter and the corridor; repeating the hoisting operation until the entire pipe gallery shelter cluster is completed; 2) anchor mooring system construction: connecting multiple cables to the reserved cable connection points on the side of the entire pipe gallery shelter cluster; pre-installing the underwater anchor body and connecting the anchor cable; and connecting the cable to the cable centralized connection point of the pipe gallery; 3) underwater installation of the tension key system: connecting the tension key to the corresponding pre-embedded parts of the vertical pipe gallery, and fixing the tension key; the corresponding pre-embedded parts include: the corresponding positions of the seabed mooring point and the floating mooring point.

[0044] It should be understood that the above embodiment is one or more embodiments of the present application, and there are many other embodiments and variations of the present application based on the present application; the variations and modifications made by the person skilled in the art without making pioneering innovations are all within the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. A method for designing and constructing a floating data center in the sea, characterized in that, The method includes the following steps: (I) Connection of the Utility Tunnel Cabin Cluster: The data center’s utility tunnel is composed of multiple circular and square steel pipe structures. Each utility tunnel is divided into a long axis and a short axis in the horizontal direction. Cabins are connected to both ends of the long axis of each utility tunnel to realize the clustering of the utility tunnel cabins. (II) Cooling System Arrangement: The cooling system is arranged on the outside of the data container. It cools the container by drawing seawater to exchange heat with the heat inside the container and then discharging the seawater into the sea. (III) Deployment of mooring system: Multiple mooring points are deployed at the top and bottom of the utility tunnel container cluster. The mooring points include floating mooring points and seabed mooring points. Through the cooperation of floating mooring points and seabed mooring points, the data center is fixed and suspended in the seawater at a set position. (iv) Deployment of tension key system: Deploy tension key system at corresponding positions of floating mooring point and seabed mooring point. The tension key system is used to control the vertical movement of the tube gallery container cluster and avoid excessive vertical acceleration. (V) Ballast Lifting and Control System: The ballast lifting and control system of the data center consists of multiple ballast modules; an external ballast system is adopted for the pipe rack, and the ballast modules are evenly arranged in two horizontal directions of the pipe rack; each ballast module has an independent ballast control system, which can perform ballast installation and disassembly at any time; (vi) The design method is to reasonably arrange the spacing of the data cabins according to the preset flow rate and the heat processing rate of the cooling system; (vii) The construction method is as follows: the installation of the utility tunnel cabin cluster assembly, ballast system, anchoring system, cooling system and tension key system is achieved by using the devices corresponding to the methods in steps (i) to (v).

2. The method for designing and constructing a floating data center in the sea according to claim 1, characterized in that, The data corridor cluster comprises: first, arranging data cabins at equal intervals in two directions on a layered and planar basis; then, optimizing the spacing in three directions based on the heat dissipation power of the data cabins; finally, connecting the data cabins and the data corridor using flange connections; the flange connection is a mechanical method for connecting pipes and equipment; the multiple circular and square steel pipe structures forming the data center's data corridor are enclosed to prevent gas exhaust.

3. The method for designing and constructing a floating data center in the sea according to claim 2, characterized in that, The optimization of the spacing in three directions based on the heat dissipation power of the data cabins includes: a) establishing a CFD numerical model of heat diffusion based on the structural parameters of the tube gallery cabin cluster; the structural parameters include the number of cabins, spacing, power, and cooling; b) using different data cabin power, cross-sectional velocity, and flow direction as boundary conditions for the heat diffusion model; c) calculating the heat carried away by the entire computational area within a preset time; d) establishing an analytical database of energy carried away by the sea under different spacing in the length, width, and height directions of different data cabins, different data cabin power, cross-sectional velocity, and flow direction; e) using different spacing in the length, width, and height directions of different data cabins, different data cabin power, cross-sectional velocity, and flow direction... f) Using all data inputs from the analysis database, a neural network model is established, with heat carried away by the sea as the output; g) The model is trained using all data inputs from the analysis database to establish a neural network prediction model; h) Data including water depth, current velocity, and current direction are collected for the sea area where the data center is located; h) Considering the spacing of the three directions of the container (length, width, and height), the power of the data container, the range of cross-sectional current velocity and current direction, and the step size, all data combinations are considered as inputs to the neural network to obtain heat data; i) For all datasets that satisfy heat diffusion, the cluster utility of the spacing of the three directions of the container (length, width, and height) and the power of the data container is evaluated; j) The cluster utility meeting the preset value is used as the optimization objective.

4. The method for designing and constructing a floating data center in the sea according to claim 1, characterized in that, The cooling system, located outside the data cabin, includes: a radiator, which is arranged on the outside of the data cabin; a server cluster and drainage pipes are arranged inside the data cabin; the radiator cools the data cabin by drawing seawater to exchange heat with the heat inside the cabin and discharging the seawater after heat exchange into the sea.

5. The method for designing and constructing a floating data center in the sea according to claim 1, characterized in that, The floating mooring point includes: anchor point, mooring line, buoy, connecting device and stabilizing device; the seabed mooring point includes: seabed anchor and mooring line.

6. The method for designing and constructing a floating data center in the sea according to claim 1, characterized in that, The tension key system includes: the tension key system is typically located at seabed anchors and seabed joint devices at seabed mooring points; the tension key system is typically located at floating mooring points on floating platforms.

7. The method for designing and constructing a floating data center in the sea according to claim 1, characterized in that, The ballast buoyancy control system includes: ballast modules installed on the transverse and longitudinal pipe racks of each layer; the installed ballast modules include fixed-weight ballast modules and ballast modules that can be controlled by water injection and air injection; the fixed-weight ballast modules and ballast modules that can be controlled by water injection and air injection are evenly arranged on the pipe rack in layers; the ballast modules dynamically control the ballast modules that can be controlled by water injection and air injection according to a preset buoyancy coefficient; by dynamically controlling the overall water injection load of the water-injectable ballast modules, the entire pipe rack container cluster meets the preset anti-buoyancy coefficient, so that the pipe rack container cluster can sit on the bottom under extreme wind and wave conditions, but does not sink into the soil, ensuring stable seawater heat transfer and stable internal operation of the pipe rack container cluster.

8. The method for designing and constructing a floating data center in the sea according to claim 1, characterized in that, The ballast buoyancy control system further includes: an air-injectable ballast module, floating mooring points, and a tension key system that jointly regulate the ascent of the data center; and a water-injectable ballast module, seabed mooring points, and a tension key system that jointly regulate the descent of the data center.

9. The method for designing and constructing a floating data center in the sea according to claim 1, characterized in that, The construction method includes: 1) Assembly of the utility tunnel modular structure: assembling the lowest-level modular structure and connecting corridor in a dry dock; towing the first-level modular structure and connecting corridor to a deep-water area; installing the ballast buoyancy control system and installing ballast modules on each level of the utility tunnel; reserving space for the controller to be installed at the top; using a shore-controlled crane to lift the utility tunnel between levels, then lifting the next level of modular structure and connecting corridor; repeating the lifting operation until the entire utility tunnel modular structure cluster is completed; 2) Construction of the mooring system: connecting multiple cables to the reserved cable connection points on the sides of the entire utility tunnel modular structure cluster; pre-installing the anchor body in the sea and connecting the anchor cable, connecting the cable to the cable concentration connection point of the utility tunnel; 3) Installation of the tension key system in the sea: Connect the tension key to the corresponding embedded part of the vertical pipe gallery and fix the tension key; the corresponding embedded part includes the corresponding positions of the seabed mooring point and the floating mooring point.

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