ECL is a data center-as-a-service company based in Mountain View, California. It operates as the world's first fully sustainable, hydrogen-powered, off-grid data center provider, focusing on infrastructure for AI workloads and general data center services.
The company's core technical work involves hydrogen fuel cell technology, modular architecture, and data center infrastructure design. Its product, the ECL Block architecture, is a modular building block rated at 1 to 2 MW, designed to be scaled to meet varying power requirements. The company reports an uptime service level agreement of 99.9999%.
The leadership and engineering team includes veterans from Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Cisco, HPE, and Bloom Energy. The company's operational model is designed to address economic, ecological, and community challenges, and it aligns its practices with the iMasons Climate Accord.
