A Bay Area startup, Edgecloud Link (ECL), is developing hydrogen-powered data centers to address the increasing electricity demand driven by AI. The International Energy Agency projects that AI data centers will account for half of the national electricity growth by 2030. ECL launched a 1.2-megawatt hydrogen-powered data center that claims to generate zero emissions. This approach also addresses water usage, producing 100-160 gallons of water per hour for cooling, compared to traditional centers that use millions of gallons daily. ECL's scalable technology provides a promising alternative to conventional data center operations.
"We can scale this technology to very large scale," Yuval Bachar, ECL founder and CEO, said. "We do multiple gigawatts of this technology based on hydrogen with zero emission."
ECL's hydrogen system produces about 100 to 160 gallons of water per hour, which is used to cool servers. Any excess may be shared with the surrounding community, Bachar said.
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