ECL Names Cloud and Infrastructure Industry Veteran Michael Glickman as President to Accelerate Global Expansion of Sustainable AI Infrastructure
ECL, a pioneer in sustainable, modular data center design, today announced that it has appointed longtime cloud and digital infrastructure leader Michael Glickman as President. Glickman, who brings more than three decades of experience scaling global service provider, cloud, and next-generation infrastructure businesses to ECL, will lead the company’s commercial expansion and global site deployment strategy, reporting to founder and CEO Yuval Bachar. He joins ECL as the company is poised to scale its modular FlexGrid architecture across U.S. and international markets to meet accelerating demand for clean, high-density AI compute capacity.
ECL Announces World’s First 1 Gigawatt Off-Grid, Hydrogen-Powered AI Factory Data Center
Data Center-as-a-Service pioneer ECL, which unveiled the world’s first off-grid, sustainable, modular, built-to-suit data center on June 20, 2024, today announced that it will build the first fully sustainable 1GW AI Factory data center – ECL TerraSite-TX1 on a 600+ acre site east of Houston, with Lambda as its first tenant. The initial phase of TerraSite-TX1 will be delivered in the summer of 2025 at a cost of approximately $450M, with 50MW of data center capacity to be utilized by data center cloud and AI cloud operators. The entire 1GW site will be constructed at a cost of approximately $8B, with funding to be provided by ECL and financial partners.
ECL Unveils World’s First Off-Grid, Hydrogen-Powered AI Data Center
Data Center-as-a-Service pioneer ECL today announced the delivery of the world’s first data center that uses hydrogen as its primary power source at MV1, its facility in Mountain View, California. The company also announced an additional $10M in funding led by Hyperwise Ventures, which will be used to accelerate research and development and expand the company’s global footprint. ECL's off-grid, sustainable, modular, built-to-suit data centers are the industry’s first to be designed from the ground up to support the high densities of GPUs that are the backbone of AI infrastructure, with PUE of 1.1 and high-density deployments of up to 75kw per rack.
Fully-Green Data Center-as-a-Service Pioneer ECL Appoints Dean Nelson, iMasons Founder and Cato Digital CEO, to its Board of Directors and Welcomes Mohsen Moazami, Founder and Managing Partner at Seif Capital, as Strategic Advisor
Data Center-as-a-Service pioneer ECL today announced that Dean Nelson, founder and chairman of Infrastructure Masons (iMasons) and CEO of Cato Digital, has joined founder and CEO Yuval Bachar; Lily Yeung, Vice President at Molex Ventures; and Nathan Shuchami, Managing Partner at Hyperwise Ventures, on the ECL board of directors. The company also announced that Mohsen Moazami, Founder and Managing Partner at Seif Capital, is now a strategic advisor.
ECL Introduces World’s First Fully-Green, Hydrogen-Powered, Off-Grid Data Center-as-a-Service with 99.9999 Percent Uptime at Significantly Lower Cost Than Traditional Colocation Data Centers
Data Center-as-a-Service pioneer ECL today announced the world’s first modular, sustainable, off-grid data center that uses green hydrogen as its primary power source. ECL will deliver data centers in 1MW blocks with 99.9999 percent uptime. The company also announced $7M in seed financing co-led by Molex Ventures and Hyperwise Ventures. Lily Yeung, Vice President at Molex Ventures and Nathan Shuchami, Managing Partner at Hyperwise Ventures join ECL Founder and CEO Yuval Bachar as members of the ECL board of directors. The funds will be used by ECL to expand its market presence and in the construction of its first data center at the company’s Mountain View, Calif. headquarters, with completion scheduled for Q2 2023.
