Nvidia is developing a large data center in Israel.
As reported by Globes and confirmed to DCD, Nvidia is developing a 30MW data center - making it one of the largest in the country.
Local press report the facility is close to the Elyakim Interchange near Yokne’am, in the north of the country.
The company reportedly aims to invest $500 million in the facility, which will host Blackwell GPUs to serve the company’s local R&D teams. It will be used by the company’s dozens of engineering and product teams, developing data center technologies including networking hardware and software technologies, CPU design, AI software, and more.
The company said the 10,000 sqm (107,640 sq ft) facility will host hudnreds of liquid cooled systems. Operations at the site are due to start in the first half of this year.
Reportedly located in the Mevo Carmel Science and Industry Park between Elyakim and Kibbutz Ramat Hashofet, the facility is set to be housed in a logistics building belonging to real estate company Shoval Investment and Management that has been converted into a data center.
"Our employees are our most important resource, and we are committed to continued investment in them," Amit Krig, SVP networking software, and Nvidia-Israel site leader, told the publication. "The new research, development, and engineering site will enable Nvidia’s thousands of employees in Israel, and the many who will join later, to continue developing the technologies that drive artificial intelligence, the most important technological power of our time."
Nvidia has a large R&D presence in Israel, with thousands of employees and seven labs in the country. It has acquired several Israel-based companies, including Mellanox, Deci, and Run:ai. The company launched an Israeli supercomputer, known as Israel-1, in 2023. The system ranks 34th on the Top500 list of most powerful supercomputers, capable of 53.68 peak petaflops (Linpack).
Shoval Investment and Management is an Israeli real estate company specializing in office buildings.