US Patent 10271462 Rapid deploy air cooling system

A data center includes rack mounted computing systems arranged in rows with one or more cold aisles between success rows of rack mounted computing systems. A modular cooling unit is configured to mount above one of the cold aisles and form a ceiling for the cold aisle and partially seal the cold aisle from other environments in the data center. The modular cooling unit draws air from the other environments, cools the air, and directs the cooled air into the cold aisle. Modular cooling units may be incrementally added to a data center as additional rows of rack computing systems are added to the data center.