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The national appetite for data centers is making its way to Houston, spurred by the city's energy industry. ECL, a Mountain View, California-based startup that emerged from stealth last year, is looking for a site east of Houston for a new 1-gigawatt data center to be powered by hydrogen.

The project, which is named ECL TerraSite TX-1, will be the company's first in Texas and largest overall to date. It is expected to create 500 construction jobs and 250 operation jobs. The first phase will cost $450 million and is expected to be delivered next year. The project’s total cost is estimated to be around $8 billion, ECL said.