US 12,316,199 B1
Waste energy reclamation with dampers
Harsh Patel, Stone Mountain, GA (US)
Assigned to Core Scientific, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed by Core Scientific Operating Company, Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed on May 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/741,544.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/187,478, filed on May 12, 2021.
Int. Cl. H02K 7/18 (2006.01); H05K 7/14 (2006.01); H05K 7/20 (2006.01)
CPC H02K 7/183 (2013.01) [H05K 7/1489 (2013.01); H05K 7/20709 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for the reclamation of energy generated from computing devices disposed within a data center, the system comprising:
at least one rack including a plurality of shelves and a plurality of computing devices;
an exhaust duct disposed adjacent to the at least one rack, the exhaust duct configured to receive exhaust air from the computing devices;
a damper disposed within the exhaust duct and configured to release at least some of the exhaust air into the data center when an ambient temperature of the data center reaches a predetermined threshold;
an exhaust fan coupled externally to an end of the exhaust duct proximate the at least one rack and configured to encounter the exhaust air that passes through the exhaust duct, wherein the damper is disposed downstream of the exhaust fan;
an air barrier attached to the at least one rack on an exhaust side of the plurality of computing devices, the air barrier structured and arranged to span the plurality of shelves adjacent to the plurality of computing devices; and
a management controller configured to create a model of the data center based on device to port mappings to provide management of the data center via the plurality of computing devices based at least in part on fan inputs received from a user interface.