ECL, based in Mountain View, California, operates as a data center infrastructure company. The firm provides data center-as-a-service, designing and deploying off-grid facilities powered by hydrogen fuel cells. Its technical work spans hydrogen fuel cell technology, modular data center design, autonomous power systems, and AI data center infrastructure.
The company's core offering is the ECL Block architecture, a modular building block with a capacity of 1 to 2 MW. This system is designed to scale to meet various power requirements and enables rapid deployment from purchase order to an IT-ready site. The company states its infrastructure achieves an uptime of 99.9999%.
ECL was founded by veterans from companies including Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Cisco, HPE, and Bloom Energy. The company describes its focus as sustainability and minimizing environmental impact through fully sustainable, off-grid data centers.
