Method Of Subsidizing Cost Of Providing Information
The inventive subject matter provides for efficiently cooling computer systems. Thermal energy from a cooling system containing a computer system and at least one manifold that is operably coupled with a compressor, heat exchanger, pressure regulator, and controller, to provide thermal energy at an elevated temperature to drive the commercial process. The cooling system can advantageously be used to cool computer systems, including Bitcoin miners, crypto miners, high-performance computers, AI computers, or other thermal energy producing devices. The system operates by extracting vapor of the working fluid from the at least one manifold, increasing the pressure and temperature of the extracted vapor by compression, and then passing this vapor to a heat exchanger, thereby providing thermal energy to cooling distribution unit at a temperature that can be higher than the operating temperature of the computer system.
1 . A method for efficiently cooling computer systems, comprising:
providing a cooling system comprising at least one manifold, wherein at least one manifold is in thermal communication with a computer system, wherein an elevated-low-pressure liquid-phase of a working fluid flows through the manifold, and wherein the computer system providing the information;
directing the elevated-low-pressure vapor-phase of the working fluid from the at least one manifold to a compressor;
compressing the elevated-low-pressure vapor-phase of the working fluid to produce an elevated-high-pressure vapor-phase of the working fluid, wherein the temperature of the working fluid is increased during the compressing process;
utilizing the elevated-high-pressure vapor-phase of the working fluid in a heat exchanger to provide thermal energy to a cooling distribution unit, during which the elevated-high-pressure vapor-phase of the working fluid is condensed to an elevated-high-pressure liquid-phase of the working fluid;
reducing a pressure of the elevated-high-pressure liquid-phase of the working fluid to produce an elevated-low-pressure liquid-phase of the working fluid;
returning the elevated-low-pressure liquid-phase of the working fluid to the at least one manifold; and
monitoring and controlling among at least one of the computer system, the compressor, the pressure regulator, such that the temperature of the thermal energy supplied to the cooling distribution unit is higher than the operating temperature of the computer system.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the working fluid comprises a mixture of at least two different working fluids, wherein each component of the mixture has at least two different saturation temperatures within the manifold.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the working fluid has a saturation temperature in the manifold-cooling system of 50° C. to 80° C., inclusive.
4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the cooling system further comprises at least two manifolds that are in thermal communication with the computer system.
5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the information comprises a Bitcoin hash.
6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the information comprises an artificial intelligence (AI) computation.
7 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising monitoring and controlling at least three of the computer system, the manifold, the compressor, the pressure regulator, and the commercial process.
8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising using feedback to control a rate of electrical energy usage by the computer system as a function of electrical energy cost and/or computational incentives.