Container fitted in a technical infrastructure
A container fitted in a technical infrastructure including on a longitudinal side face, at least one opening arranged to allow the intake of air inside the container; on the opposite longitudinal side face, at least one fan arranged to expel the air from the inside to the outside of the container; and computer racks disposed in the middle of the container along its longitudinal axis.
1. A container fitted out as a technical infrastructure comprising:
on a first longitudinal lateral face, at least one opening that allows entry of air into an interior of the container;
on a second longitudinal lateral face opposite the first longitudinal lateral face, at least one ventilator that moves the air from the interior to an exterior of the container;
computer bays disposed in an arrangement in a middle of the interior of the container along a longitudinal, horizontal axis of the container, the at least one opening and the at least one ventilator are arranged to cause the air to flow through the container generally perpendicularly to the longitudinal, horizontal axis along which the computer bays are arranged;
at least one filter that filters the air entering the interior and that regulates a level of humidity of the air entering the interior; and
a transverse lateral face arranged to allow the interior of the container to communicate with an interior of at least a second fitted out container, the container and the second fitted out container forming a third, expanded container along the longitudinal, horizontal axis.
2. The container according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one opening and the at least one ventilator are vertically offset at two different heights, respectively, on the first longitudinal lateral face and the second longitudinal lateral face.
3. The container according to claim 1 , further comprising a cooling system by water.
4. A data center comprising a plurality of containers fitted out as a technical infrastructure as defined in claim 1 .
5. The data center according to claim 4 , characterized in that the fitted-out containers are arranged in the form of a chimney, a cavity of which is open upwards.
6. The container according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one opening that allows entry of air into the interior of the container and the at least one ventilator that moves the air from the interior of the container to the exterior of the container are both located on a same floor of the container.
7. The container according to claim 1 , wherein the ventilator comprises a fan.
8. A container fitted out as a technical infrastructure, the container having a rectangular parallelepiped geometry extending along a longitudinal, horizontal axis and with an interior and an exterior; the container comprising:
on a first longitudinal lateral wall, an opening for entry of air into the interior of the container;
on a second longitudinal lateral wall opposite the first longitudinal lateral wall, a ventilator that moves the air from the interior to the exterior;
computer bays arranged in the interior along the longitudinal, horizontal axis of the container and separated by spaces from the first longitudinal lateral wall and from the second longitudinal lateral wall to allow a human body to completely enter the spaces to access the computer bays, the opening and the ventilator conduct the air to flow through the container across the computer bays in a direction generally perpendicular to the longitudinal, horizontal axis along which the computer bays are arranged;
a filter that filters the air entering the interior and that regulates a level of humidity of the air entering the interior; and
a transverse lateral face arranged to allow the interior of the container to communicate with an interior of at least a second fitted out container, the container and the second fitted out container forming a third, expanded container along the longitudinal, horizontal axis.
9. The container according to claim 8 , wherein the opening and the ventilator are vertically offset at two different heights on the two opposite longitudinal lateral faces, with the opening at a height lower than the ventilator.
10. A data center comprising a plurality of containers, each container according to claim 8 , the plurality of containers organized as an enclosed cavity that extends vertically and that is open upwards to thereby form a building in the form of a chimney, wherein the chimney is delimited by the container walls.
11. The data center according to claim 10 , wherein for each container, the ventilator faces the enclosed cavity.
12. A data center comprising a plurality of containers, each container according to claim 8 , wherein each container is modular and connected to at least one other of the plurality of containers so that the interiors of the connected containers are in communication with each other.
13. The container according to claim 8 , comprising a door to allow the human body to completely enter the spaces to access the computer bays, the door located in a wall other than the first longitudinal lateral wall and the second longitudinal lateral wall.
14. The container according to claim 8 , comprising an aisle for human access on each side of the computer bays allowing access to the computer bays.
15. The container according to claim 8 , wherein the ventilator comprises a fan.