US 12,432,889 B2
Systems and methods for cooling datacenters
Ehsan Nasr Azadani, Bellevue, WA (US); Eric C. Peterson, Woodinville, WA (US); Winston Allen Saunders, Seattle, WA (US); Sean Patrick Abbott, Redmond, WA (US); Mark Alan Monroe, Louisville, CO (US); Kristofer Andrew Johnson, Snoqualmie, WA (US); Christian L. Belady, Mercer Island, WA (US); and Anthony Joseph Bianchi, Urbandale, IA (US)
Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Mar. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/126,866.
Prior Publication US 2024/0334657 A1, Oct. 3, 2024
Int. Cl. H05K 7/20 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 7/20836 (2013.01) [H05K 7/20745 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A thermal management system comprising:
an air handling unit (AHU) configured to receive outside air (OA) from an OA intake, and water from a water source, wherein:
the AHU is configured to direct conditioned air toward a cold aisle and the AHU includes a modular adiabatic layer containing an evaporative media, and
the modular adiabatic layer includes a plurality of subregions configured to be wetted by the evaporative media independently of one another.