EdgeCloudLink (ECL): Mountain View Data Center
About Mountain View Data Center
ECL MV1 Mountain View Data Center in Mountain View, California delivers hydrogen-powered Data Center-as-a-Service capacity for AI, GPU, cloud, enterprise, and high-density compute workloads in Silicon Valley. The facility is ECL’s pilot production site and operates at the company’s Mountain View headquarters, using hydrogen fuel cells as its primary power source. MV1 is built for dense AI infrastructure that needs resilient power, efficient cooling, and rapid deployment without dependence on conventional utility-backed data center design.
MV1 supports high-density deployments up to 75 kW per rack and operates with a 1.1 PUE design profile. ECL’s modular platform uses hydrogen-based power generation, proprietary cooling, rear-door heat exchanger technology, and the ECL Lightning management system for visibility from power generation through rack cooling. The broader ECLBlock architecture supports modular scaling in 1 MW increments, with power, cooling, security, fire suppression, and operations isolated by block.
The facility’s 411 Clyde Ave location places MV1 in Mountain View’s Silicon Valley technology corridor, near Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, San José, and the broader Bay Area digital infrastructure ecosystem. The site is positioned for AI teams, cloud platforms, high-performance computing deployments, and enterprises that need dense compute close to Silicon Valley engineering, network, and technology clusters. ECL’s Mountain View deployment also demonstrates a data center model that produces water as a hydrogen-power byproduct, avoids local water use for cooling, and supports future modular growth for off-grid or flex-grid deployments.
🏢 Facility Highlights
- Facility Identifier: MV1.
- Power Model: Hydrogen fuel cells as primary power source.
- Deployment Model: Data Center-as-a-Service.
- Rack Density: Up to 75 kW per rack.
- Efficiency: 1.1 PUE design profile.
- Architecture: Modular ECLBlock platform with 1 MW expansion increments.
🌱 Sustainability & Energy
- Hydrogen Power: Primary power delivered through hydrogen fuel cells.
- Off-Grid Operation: Designed for off-grid sustainable data center operation.
- Cooling Water Use: Water-free cooling approach.
- Water Byproduct: Hydrogen-based power generation produces water for potential community use.
- Grid Independence: Platform reduces dependence on local grid capacity for dense AI deployments.
🧠 AI Infrastructure
- GPU Density: Designed for dense GPU and AI infrastructure.
- Cooling System: Rear-door heat exchanger technology supports high-density rack cooling.
- Management Platform: ECL Lightning monitors power generation, power delivery, and rack cooling.
- Workload Fit: AI inference, AI training, high-performance computing, cloud platforms, and dense enterprise compute.
🛰️ Network Position
- Silicon Valley Location: Mountain View site near Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and San José.
- Airport Access: 11 miles from San José Mineta International Airport.
- Technology Corridor: Positioned inside the Bay Area’s engineering and AI infrastructure market.
- Deployment Advantage: Supports dense infrastructure near Silicon Valley users and operators.