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A system for managing a structure having cooling fluid configured to flow around and absorb heat from components contained in the structure includes a plurality of separate cooling mechanisms configured to absorb heat from the cooling fluid. At least two of the plurality of separate cooling mechanis

A system for managing a structure having cooling fluid configured to flow around and absorb heat from components contained in the structure includes a plurality of separate cooling mechanisms configured to absorb heat from the cooling fluid. At least two of the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms have at least one different level of a metric with respect to each other. The system also includes a controller configured to implement the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms in a staged manner to remove heat from the cooling fluid. The staged manner includes implementing the cooling mechanism having a relatively lower at least one metric level first and implementing a cooling mechanism having a relatively higher at least one metric level last, to cool the structure.

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1. A system for managing a structure having cooling fluid that is to flow around and absorb heat from components contained in the structure, said system comprising: a plurality of separate cooling mechanisms to absorb heat from the cooling fluid, at least two of said plurality of separate cooling me

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A system for managing a structure having cooling fluid that is to flow around and absorb heat from components contained in the structure, said system comprising: a plurality of separate cooling mechanisms to absorb heat from the cooling fluid, at least two of said plurality of separate cooling mechanisms having a different level of a metric with respect to each other, wherein one of the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms is a passive cooling mechanism and another one of the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms is an active cooling mechanism, wherein the passive cooling mechanism includes a first cooling medium and the active cooling mechanism includes a second cooling medium, and wherein the first cooling medium is separated from second cooling medium;a controller to implement the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms in a staged manner to remove heat from the cooling fluid, wherein the staged manner comprises implementing the passive cooling mechanism first and implementing the active cooling mechanism second, to manage the structure, andwherein the controller is further to define a plurality of setpoint ranges of the active cooling mechanism that respectively correspond to different risks of damage to the components, wherein the controller is to receive an instruction to implement a selected one of the plurality of setpoint ranges and to implement the selected one of the plurality of setpoint ranges in controlling the active cooling mechanism. 2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the passive cooling mechanism includes a first heat absorbing component and wherein the first cooling medium is to flow through the first heat absorbing component, wherein the active cooling mechanism includes a second heat absorbing component and wherein the second cooling medium is to flow through the second heat absorbing component. 3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the passive cooling mechanism requires no electrical energy to cool the first cooling medium and the active cooling mechanism requires electrical energy to cool the second cooling medium. 4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the passive cooling mechanism comprises a loop thermosiphon having a condenser and an evaporator, wherein the condenser is positioned at a vertically higher position than the evaporator, wherein the first cooling medium of the loop thermosiphon is to flow between the evaporator and the condenser through phase changes in the first cooling medium. 5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the active cooling mechanism comprises at least one of a ground-coupled loop and a chiller apparatus. 6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the active cooling mechanism comprises a ground-coupled loop having a cooling tower to remove additional heat from the second cooling medium contained in the active cooling mechanism. 7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the passive cooling mechanism and the active cooling mechanism share a common evaporator, wherein the common evaporator comprises a plurality of pipe sets to maintain separation of the first cooling medium from the second cooling medium. 8. The system according to claim 1, further comprising: a sensor to detect an environmental condition of the cooling fluid at a location in the structure; andwherein the controller is further to implement the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms in a staged manner to substantially maintain the detected environmental condition within a predetermined range. 9. The system according to claim 8, wherein the structure comprises a building and the components comprise electronic devices, and wherein the sensor is to detect a temperature at a location of an electronic device. 10. The system according to claim 8, wherein the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms further comprise a second active cooling mechanism having a third cooling medium, wherein the third cooling medium is to remove heat from the second cooling medium, and wherein the controller is further to modulate the second active cooling mechanism to modulate heat removal from the second cooling medium and the cooling fluid. 11. The system according to claim 1, wherein the structure is divided into a plurality of zones, and wherein each of the plurality of zones is to be cooled by a plurality of separate cooling mechanisms, where at least two of the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms have different energy consumption levels with respect to each other. 12. The system according to claim 1, wherein the different metric level comprises one of an energy consumption level, a total cost of ownership, and an exergy loss of the plurality of cooling mechanisms. 13. A method for managing a structure having cooling fluid that is to flow around and absorb heat from components contained in the structure with a plurality of separate cooling mechanisms having different levels of a metric with respect to each other, wherein one of the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms is a passive cooling mechanism and another one of the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms is an active cooling mechanism, wherein the passive cooling mechanism includes a first cooling medium and the active cooling mechanism includes a second cooling medium, and wherein the first cooling medium is separated from second cooling medium, said method comprising: defining a plurality of setpoint ranges of the active cooling mechanism that respectively correspond to different risks of damage to the components;receiving an instruction to implement a selected one of the plurality of setpoint ranges;receiving an environmental condition detected at a location in the structure;determining whether the environmental condition is below the selected one of the plurality of setpoint ranges;in response to the environmental condition falling below the selected one of the plurality of setpoint ranges, implementing the passive cooling mechanism without implementing the active cooling mechanism; andin response to the environmental condition exceeding the selected one of the plurality of setpoint ranges, activating the active cooling mechanism. 14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the environmental condition comprises temperature, wherein the selected one of the plurality of setpoint ranges comprises a setpoint temperature range, said method further comprising: determining whether implementing the passive cooling mechanism while the active mechanism is not operating resulted in maintaining the temperature within the setpoint temperature range; andin response to the temperature being above the setpoint temperature range, activating the active cooling mechanism to be operational. 15. The method according to claim 13, further comprising: at least one of reducing cooling output from and deactivating the active cooling mechanism in response to a determination that an environmental condition is below the first selected one of the plurality of setpoint ranges. 16. The method according to claim 13, wherein the passive cooling mechanism includes a first heat absorbing component and wherein the first cooling medium is to flow through the first heat absorbing component, wherein the active cooling mechanism includes a second heat absorbing component and wherein the second cooling medium is to flow through the second heat absorbing component. 17. The method according to claim 16, wherein the passive cooling mechanism requires no electrical energy to cool the first cooling medium and the active cooling mechanism requires electrical energy to cool the second cooling medium. 18. The method according to claim 13, wherein the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms further comprise a second active cooling mechanism having a third cooling medium, wherein the second cooling medium is to remove heat from the second cooling medium, said method further comprising: determining whether the one or more environmental conditions are above a another one of the plurality of setpoint ranges; andin response to the one or more environmental conditions exceeding the another one of the plurality of setpoint ranges, modulating the second active cooling mechanism to increase heat removal from the second cooling medium. 19. The method according to claim 13, further comprising: defining the plurality of setpoint ranges from provisions set forth in one or more service level agreements that define various manners in which the structure is to be operated. 20. The method according to claim 13, wherein the structure is divided into a plurality of zones and wherein each of the plurality of zones is to be cooled by a plurality of separate cooling mechanisms, where at least two of the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms have different metric levels with respect to each other, said method further comprising: modulating the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms in at least two of the zones independently with respect to each other. 21. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium on which is embedded machine readable instructions that, when executed by a processor implements a method for cooling a structure having cooling fluid that is to flow around and absorb heat from components contained in the structure with a plurality of separate cooling mechanisms having different levels of a metric with respect to each other, wherein one of the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms is a passive cooling mechanism and another one of the plurality of separate cooling mechanisms is an active cooling mechanism, wherein the passive cooling mechanism includes a first cooling medium and the active cooling mechanism includes a second cooling medium, and wherein the first cooling medium is separated from the second cooling medium, wherein said machine readable instructions are to cause the processor to: define a plurality of setpoint ranges of the active cooling mechanism that respectively correspond to different risks of damage to the components;receive an instruction to implement a selected one of the plurality of setpoint ranges;receive an environmental condition detected at a location in the structure;determine whether the environmental condition is below the selected one of the plurality of setpoint ranges; andin response to the environmental condition falling below the selected one of the plurality of setpoint ranges, implement the passive cooling mechanism while the active cooling mechanism is not operating; andin response to the environmental condition exceeding the selected one of the plurality of setpoint ranges, activate the active cooling mechanism.