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A datacenter housing servers, computers, data storage devices, telecommunications and related equipment for storing and accessing large amounts of data on a continuous, uninterrupted and reliable basis, which is provided with a supporting system or infrastructure for supplying power and cooling to t

A datacenter housing servers, computers, data storage devices, telecommunications and related equipment for storing and accessing large amounts of data on a continuous, uninterrupted and reliable basis, which is provided with a supporting system or infrastructure for supplying power and cooling to the datacenter, which involves equipment primarily contained in modules situated outside the building that houses the primary computer and server equipment, whereby said supporting system or infrastructure is designed with redundant equipment, connections, and controls to avoid any single point of potential failure.

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1. A datacenter for providing continuous and secure access and storage for data, said datacenter comprising: a facility for housing computer-related and telecommunications-related equipment; andan infrastructure support system comprising electrical power infrastructure for providing electrical power

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A datacenter for providing continuous and secure access and storage for data, said datacenter comprising: a facility for housing computer-related and telecommunications-related equipment; andan infrastructure support system comprising electrical power infrastructure for providing electrical power for said facility, said infrastructure support system primarily situated outside said facility, said electrical power infrastructure comprising equipment and containers or modules containing said equipment, said equipment of said electrical power infrastructure comprising:a) a primary switchboard module containing a main or primary switchboard or switchgear and a plurality of automatic transfer switch (ATS) units;b) a secondary switchboard module containing a secondary switchboard or switchgear;c) two or more generators for generating electrical power including a primary generator and a reserve generator;d) two or more transformers including a primary transformer and a secondary transformer; ande) two or more uninterruptible power system (UPS) modules each containing one or more of UPS units and energy storage devices,wherein utility-sourced electrical power flows to said primary transformer and then to said main or primary switchboard of said primary switchboard module, from which electrical power flows to one or more of said plurality of ATS units in said primary switchboard module, said primary switchboard module subsequently transferring electrical power to one or more of said UPS units within one or more UPS modules, said UPS units distributing electrical power to the facility and other systems of the datacenter,wherein, if there is a loss of utility-sourced electrical power, one or more of said plurality of ATS units is capable of detecting the loss of utility-sourced electrical power and sensing alternative available electrical power sources in said electrical power infrastructure and is capable of carrying out steps to transfer the load to one or more of said available alternative sources of electrical power,wherein, if there is a loss of utility-sourced electrical power, said primary switchboard is capable of receiving electrical power from said primary generator in said electrical power infrastructure,wherein said secondary switchboard said secondary switchboard module is capable of (i) being activated by any of the ATS units in said primary switchboard module, (ii) receiving utility-sourced electrical power from said secondary transformer that bypasses said primary transformer and said primary switchboard, and (iii) receiving electrical power from said reserve generator which bypasses said primary switchboard and is capable of transferring electrical power to one or more ATS units,wherein said ATS units in said primary switchboard module are capable of transferring electrical power along alternative pathways to one or more UPS units,wherein said infrastructure support system contains redundancies in equipment, pathways and connections to possess no single point of potential failure in the availability of electrical power for operating at least some of the computer-related and telecommunications-related equipment in the facility, andwherein a capacity of the electrical power provided by said electrical power infrastructure based on utility-sourced electrical power exceeds the electrical load required by the facility and the capacity of the electrical power infrastructure based on non-utility-sourced electrical power exceeds a critical load required to operate the computer-related and telecommunications-related equipment in the facility. 2. The datacenter of claim 1, wherein the generator and transformer equipment are not contained within a module. 3. The datacenter of claim 1, wherein said energy storage devices comprise batteries. 4. The datacenter of claim 1, wherein a UPS module contains two or more UPS units. 5. The datacenter of claim 1, wherein at least one of said containers or modules containing electrical power infrastructure equipment has dimensions of not greater than a length of 40 feet, a width of 8 feet and a height of 8.5 feet. 6. The electrical power infrastructure of claim 1, wherein at least some infrastructure equipment therein is capable of (a) detecting an interruption in the flow of utility-sourced power, (b) shutting off the electrical pathway to the utility-sourced power when said interruption is detected, (c) triggering the operation of UPS and energy storage devices when said interruption in utility-sourced power is detected, (d) triggering the operation of generator equipment after said interruption in utility-sourced power is detected, (e) detecting the capability of generator equipment to supply electrical power to infrastructure components and opening the pathway for the flow of electrical power from said generator equipment to said infrastructure components, upon such detection shutting off the flow of electricity from said energy storage devices, and (f) detecting the resumption of the utility-sourced electrical power and when said resumption is detected, shutting off the electrical pathway to the generator-sourced power when said resumption is detected, triggering flow of electricity from said UPS and said energy storage devices, opening the pathway for flow of utility-sourced electrical power system to infrastructure components, and terminating the operation of said generator equipment. 7. The datacenter of claim 1, wherein the electrical power provided by said infrastructure support system based on utility-sourced electrical power exceeds the electrical load required by the facility and a cooling system for the facility. 8. The datacenter of claim 1, said infrastructure support system further comprising a cooling system for providing cooling for said facility. 9. The datacenter of claim 8, wherein said infrastructure support system includes a cooling system, and wherein said cooling system comprises two or more modular chiller plants and two or more air handler devices situated outside said facility and having a capacity exceeding the cooling requirements for the facility and including a redundant configuration and equipment which avoids any single potential site of failure for the cooling system. 10. The datacenter of claim 9, wherein one of said chiller plants and air handler devices of said cooling system are physically located above one or more of said modules or containers containing said electrical power infrastructure equipment. 11. An infrastructure support system for a datacenter, said infrastructure support system having redundant components, connections, pathways and controls such that said infrastructure support system is capable of supplying substantially uninterrupted power to operate at least computer and related equipment within the datacenter, at least said components being substantially situated outside a building that substantially contains the computer and related datacenter equipment, said infrastructure support system comprising: a) control equipment that senses or controls or activates at least some of said components to supply usable electrical power to the datacenter equipment even when there is a failure in the flow of utility-sourced electrical power, said control equipment being capable of:i) detecting an interruption in the flow of the utility-sourced power,ii) shutting off an electrical line to the utility-sourced electrical power when the utility-sourced power flow interruption is detected,iii) triggering operation of energy storage devices of a stored power supply system when the utility-sourced power flow interruption is detected,iv) triggering operation of at least one generator of a generator system when the utility-sourced power flow interruption is detected,v) detecting a capability of any of said generators of said generator system to supply usable electrical power to the datacenter equipment, vi) shutting off said energy storage devices when the power supply capability of said any of said generators of said generator system is detected,vii) detecting the resumption of the utility-sourced electrical power, andviii) terminating the operation of said any of said generators of said generator system and said energy storage devices when said resumption is detected; andb) a transformer system comprising one or more transformer units, each transformer unit operating when there is electricity flowing from the utility-sourced electrical power and being capable of converting the utility-sourced electrical power to a level of voltage suitable for use by at least some of the datacenter equipment, said transformer system having a redundancy capability and design permitting at least some of said transformer units to operate at least some of the datacenter equipment independently of other of said transformer units in the event of a malfunction in or inoperability of any of said other of said transformer units;c) said stored power supply system, said stored power supply system comprising said energy storage devices, one or more of said energy storage devices being capable of (i) supplying stored electrical power independently of other sources of electrical power, (ii) being activated when the utility-sourced electrical power is interrupted, and (iii) being shut off when at least one of (a) the utility-sourced electrical power is activated and (b) said generator system is capable of supplying electrical power with a capacity that exceeds the load required to operate at least the datacenter equipment during a time period of required operation of said power supply system, at least some of said energy storage devices having a redundancy capability and design permitting supply of said stored electrical power therein to operate at least some of the datacenter equipment independently of other of said energy storage devices in the event of a malfunction in or inoperability of any of said other of said energy storage devices; andd) said generator system, said generator system comprising a plurality of said generators, each of said generators being capable of (i) operating independently of each other, (ii) being activated when the utility-sourced electrical power is interrupted, and (iii) being shut off when the utility-sourced electrical power resumes, said generator system having a capacity of supplying electrical power to satisfy at least the required load of the datacenter equipment, at least some of said generators having a redundancy capability and design to supply electrical power to operate at least some of the datacenter equipment independently of other of said generators of the generator system in the event of a malfunction in or inoperability of any of said other of said generators. 12. The infrastructure support system according to claim 11, wherein said stored power supply system comprises:a) one or more UPS modules, each including a UPS component and stored energy devices;b) one or more primary switchboard modules, each including an ATS component and a circuit breaker component; andc) one or more secondary switchboard modules,wherein said generator system comprisestwo or more generators, andwherein said transformer system comprisestwo or more transformers. 13. The infrastructure support system according to claim 11, wherein said control equipment, said transformer system, said stored power supply system, and said generator system are contained within one or more modules or containers, each of the modules or containers being substantially fabricated at a site distant from the datacenter. 14. The infrastructure support system according to claim 13, wherein each of the modules or containers is capable of being accessed for servicing or entirely removed from the datacenter without interrupting the operation of at least one of other of said components of the infrastructure support system or of the datacenter equipment. 15. The infrastructure support system according to claim 13, wherein each of the modules or containers has exterior connections for accessing at least some of said components contained therein and for connecting said components therein with other of said components in any of other modules or containers in the infrastructure support system. 16. The infrastructure support system of claim 11, wherein said system enables said energy storage devices to cooperate such that the stored power supply system is uninterruptible. 17. A datacenter for providing continuous and secure access and storage for data, said datacenter comprising: a facility for housing computer-related and telecommunications-related equipment; andan infrastructure support system for comprising electrical power infrastructure for providing electrical power to said facility and a cooling system for cooling said facility, said infrastructure support system primarily situated outside said facility, said electrical power infrastructure comprising equipment and containers or modules containing said equipment, said equipment of said electrical power infrastructure comprising:a) a primary switchboard module containing a main or primary switchboard or switchgear and a plurality of automatic transfer switch (ATS) units;b) a secondary switchboard module containing a secondary switchboard or switchgear;c) two or more generators for generating electrical power including a primary generator and a reserve generator;d) two or more transformers including a primary transformer and a secondary transformer; ande) two or more uninterruptible power system (UPS) modules each containing one or more of UPS units and energy storage devices,wherein said infrastructure support system contains redundancies in equipment, pathways and connections to possess no single point of potential failure in the availability of electrical power for operating at least some of the computer-related and telecommunications-related equipment in the facility, andwherein the capacity of the electrical power provided by said infrastructure support system based on utility-sourced electrical power exceeds the electrical load required by the facility and the cooling system for the facility, and the capacity of the electrical power infrastructure based on non-utility-sourced electrical power exceeds a critical load required to operate the computer-related and telecommunications-related equipment in the facility. 18. An infrastructure support system comprising electrical power infrastructure for providing electrical power for at least computer and related equipment within a datacenter facility, said infrastructure support system primarily situated outside said datacenter facility, said electrical power infrastructure comprising equipment and containers or modules containing said equipment, said equipment of said electrical power infrastructure comprising: a) a primary switchboard module containing a main or primary switchboard or switchgear and a plurality of automatic transfer switch (ATS) units;b) a secondary switchboard module containing a secondary switchboard or switchgear;c) two or more generators for generating electrical power including a primary generator and a reserve generator;d) two or more transformers including a primary transformer and a secondary transformer; ande) two or more uninterruptible power system (UPS) modules each containing one or more of UPS units and energy storage devices,wherein utility-sourced electrical power flows to said primary transformer and then to said main or primary switchboard of said primary switchboard module, from which electrical power flows to one or more of said plurality of ATS units in said primary switchboard module, said primary switchboard module subsequently transferring electrical power to one or more of said UPS units within one or more UPS modules, said UPS units distributing electrical power to at least the datacenter facility,wherein, if there is a loss of utility-sourced electrical power, one or more of said plurality of ATS units is capable of detecting the loss of utility-sourced electrical power and sensing alternative available electrical power sources in said electrical power infrastructure and is capable of carrying out steps to transfer the load to one or more of said available alternative sources of electrical power,wherein, if there is a loss of utility-sourced electrical power, said primary switchboard is capable of receiving electrical power from said primary generator in said electrical power infrastructure,wherein said secondary switchboard in said secondary switchboard module is capable of (i) being activated by any of the ATS units in said primary switchboard module, (ii) receiving utility-sourced electrical power from said secondary transformer that bypasses said primary transformer and said primary switchboard, and (iii) receiving electrical power from said reserve generator which bypasses said primary switchboard and is capable of transferring electrical power to one or more ATS units,wherein said ATS units in said primary switchboard module are capable of transferring electrical power along alternative pathways to one or more UPS units,wherein said infrastructure support system contains redundancies in equipment, pathways and connections to possess no single point of potential failure in the availability of electrical power for operating the computer and related equipment in the datacenter facility, andwherein a capacity of the electrical power provided by said electrical power infrastructure based on utility-sourced electrical power exceeds the electrical load required by the datacenter facility and the capacity of the electrical power infrastructure based on non-utility-sourced electrical power exceeds a critical load required to operate the computer and related equipment in the datacenter facility.