ECL Announces World’s First 1 Gigawatt Off-Grid, Hydrogen-Powered AI Factory Data Center
Designed specifically for the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the site will also provide space for tenants to deliver cutting-edge AI cloud and traditional cloud services to their customers. Hydrogen will be provided by three separate pipelines that converge at the site, eliminating the need for additional fuel transportation. The initial 1GW phased development may be expanded to 2GW in the future, enabled by its modularity and based on customer demand.
ECL provides highly-competitive data center Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and the fastest time-to-market, along with unmatched flexibility in location, size, and density. ECL data centers are modular, allowing for easy expansion in 1MW increments, and are built to suit and delivered in less than 12 months, vs. the industry standard of 36 to 48. By eliminating the environmental impact associated with traditional data center development and utilization, they also give AI consumers assurance that their use of AI is not expanding their carbon footprints.
ECL’s AI infrastructure is enhanced by its advanced AI data center management system, ECL Lightning™, which offers real-time monitoring and micro adjustment control over every aspect of data center operations, from power generation to rack cooling. Its user-friendly interface provides comprehensive visibility and configuration capabilities, ensuring optimal performance for AI and other workloads. ECL’s proprietary cooling innovations include using water from hydrogen-based power generation, along with patent-pending quadruple loop and direct-to-chip cooling technologies for its extremely high-density racks.
ECL Terrasite-TX1 comes at a critical time for the state of Texas, with The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) testifying on June 12 this year that the state’s power grid needs will grow approximately 2X by 2030 due in part to the growth of data centers and AI. In response,
Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick posted to X,
We want data centers, but it can’t be the Wild Wild West of data centers and crypto miners crashing our grid and turning the lights off.
ECL Terrasite-TX1 is purpose-built to eliminate the stress on the state’s power grid while facilitating state-level economic development and growth of the AI industry.
Yuval Bachar, co-founder and CEO of ECL, said :
While others talk about delivering off-grid, hydrogen-powered data centers in five, ten, or 20 years, only ECL is giving the AI industry the space, power, and peace of mind they and their customers need, now,
“The level of innovation that we have introduced to the market is unprecedented and will serve not only us and our customers but the entire data center industry for decades to come.”
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