EdgeCloudLink (ECL)

ECL is a Mountain View, California-based modular AI data center and Data-Center-as-a-Service provider serving cloud, AI, edge, and high-density infrastructure customers. The company builds community-integrated Flex-Grid data centers designed for high availability, high rack density, and lower-impact power delivery. Its platform combines modular facility blocks, on-site power generation, advanced cooling, infrastructure monitoring, and build-to-order deployment for customers that need scalable AI infrastructure without conventional utility interconnection timelines.

ECL’s service portfolio centers on modular data center capacity, AI infrastructure, Flex-Grid power architecture, and Data-Center-as-a-Service. The ECL Block architecture scales from 1 MW to 10 MW blocks, and larger sites are built by repeating those blocks. Customers can define rack criteria, rack-level power requirements, redundancy mode, availability mode, and internal data center temperature. ECL’s Lightning management system provides infrastructure visibility across power generation, cooling, rack-level energy usage, alerting, visualization, trending, predictive modeling, inventory, site optimization, support portal ticketing, and API feeds.

ECL’s differentiators include hydrogen fuel cell power, optional natural gas generation with carbon capture, clean-grid operation, modular deployment, water-conscious design, and high-density cooling. Its first hydrogen-powered modular data center, MV-1, operates at the company’s Mountain View headquarters. ECL also announced CSC-1, a 35 MW Santa Clara data center using FlexGrid architecture, on-grid electricity, natural gas, and behind-the-meter hydrogen power blocks. CSC-1 is designed to support 75 kW to 270 kW rack densities, with a first phase offering 2.5 MW of IT capacity.

🏢 Facility Highlights

1. MV-1: 1 MW hydrogen-powered modular data center at ECL’s Mountain View, California headquarters
2. CSC-1: 35 MW Santa Clara, California data center planned with FlexGrid power architecture
3. First Phase Capacity: 2.5 MW of IT capacity at CSC-1
4. Rack Density: 75 kW to 270 kW rack densities planned for CSC-1
5. Modular Blocks: 1 MW to 10 MW ECL Block architecture

🛠️ Service Portfolio Overview

1. Data-Center-as-a-Service: Modular data center capacity delivered through ECL’s Flex-Grid platform
2. AI Infrastructure: High-density data center environments designed for AI workloads
3. Build-to-Order Sites: Customer-defined rack criteria, power requirements, redundancy, availability, and temperature
4. Network and Server Integration: On-demand network and server integration services
5. Management Platform: Lightning system for monitoring, alerting, predictive modeling, site optimization, and support ticketing

🌱 Sustainability & Energy

1. Flex-Grid Power: Clean grid power with optional hydrogen and natural gas supplemental generation
2. Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Continuous hydrogen power generation for zero-emissions data center environments
3. Diesel-Free Design: Flex-Grid architecture without diesel generators
4. Efficiency: Sub-1.1 PUE listed for ECL’s solution
5. Water Use: Zero community water usage design with hydrogen byproduct water reuse options

🏭 Who It Serves

1. AI Workloads: High-density compute environments for AI infrastructure
2. Cloud Infrastructure: Modular data center capacity for cloud platforms
3. Edge Deployments: Distributed infrastructure requiring compact, scalable capacity
4. Sustainable Infrastructure Buyers: Customers prioritizing low-emission, diesel-free data center operations