Configurable Data Center Platform for Harsh Environments
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional data center deployments in harsh near-sky environments face challenges with power reliability, environmental control, and redundancy due to the need for self-sufficient IT workload equipment, leading to inefficiencies and increased costs.
Innovation Solution
A configurable data center platform that integrates with existing civil infrastructure, providing a unified computing platform with modular components for power distribution, environmental control, and communication, utilizing a toroidal shape to minimize wind effects and incorporating a cooling system that leverages natural convection and heat sinks for efficient heat management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If data center facilities deploy self-sufficient IT workload equipment with separate power and cooling systems, then reliability and independence are improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines IT workload equipment with infrastructure systems (power distribution, cooling, housing) into a single integrated data center facility. This merging eliminates the need for separate self-sufficient equipment while maintaining reliability through unified system design and shared infrastructure resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The data center facility is designed as a multi-functional integrated system where a single facility provides computing, power distribution, cooling, housing, and monitoring functions simultaneously. This universal approach allows one system to perform multiple functions that traditionally required separate dedicated systems.
2Stability of the object's composition
If data center facilities implement comprehensive environmental control and monitoring systems, then operational stability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Environmental control systems are merged with the housing and power distribution systems into a unified infrastructure. Sensors and control mechanisms are integrated into the facility structure itself, allowing environmental monitoring and control to be achieved through the existing infrastructure rather than adding separate complex control systems.
3Reliability
If data center facilities use traditional deployment methods in harsh near-sky environments, then operational independence is improved, but cost and redundancy requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple data center facilities are merged into a distributed network where facilities share infrastructure resources and communicate with each other. This networked approach provides operational independence for each facility while reducing the need for individual redundancy through shared resources across the network.
4Quantity of substance
If data center facilities integrate with existing civil infrastructure, then cost and redundancy are reduced, but adaptability to different environments decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The data center facility design incorporates dynamic and adjustable components that can be configured for different deployment environments. The facility can adapt its configuration based on whether it is integrated with existing infrastructure or deployed in harsh near-sky environments, providing versatility through dynamic reconfigurability rather than fixed design.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution enables reliable and efficient operation in extreme environments, reducing redundancy and costs by utilizing existing infrastructure, while maintaining high uptime and efficiency through integrated power conditioning and communication systems.
Implementation Method 1
the cooling system comprises a cooling tower configured to cause a convection cooling process inside the enclosure
Implementation Method 2
incorporating a cooling system that leverages natural convection and heat sinks for efficient heat management
Data Source
AI summary
A configurable data center platform includes an enclosure configured to affix to a support structure, the enclosure configured for housing one or more processing systems that form a data center, one or more transceivers configured to enable the one or more processing systems to communicate with one or more remote devices, one or more sensors; and an electrical power distribution subsystem configured to condition a received electrical current to one or more conditioned electrical currents that power the one or more processing systems and the one or more sensors, wherein the enclosure comprises a cooling system that removes heat from the one or more processing systems and the one or more sensors.