Data Center News

Quantum Transistors secures funding from European Council

Israeli quantum computing startup Quantum Transistors has secured funding of up to €17.5 million ($19 million) from the European Innovation Commission. The council selected 68 companies that will receive an estimated €411 million ($446.1m) in funding, of which up to €165 million ($179m) is in...

July 28, 2024

Israel

LightSolver makes laser-based computing system generally available

Laser-based computing startup LightSolver has made its LPU100 system generally available to selected enterprise clients of LightSolver via the company’s new cloud platform. This system utilizes all-optical coupled lasers that require no electronics to compute and combines the company’s all-op...

March 22, 2024

Israel

DustPhotonics raises $24 million in new funding round

Silicon photonics company DustPhotonics has raised $24 million in a Series B follow-on funding round. This funding came from both new and existing investors, including Sienna Venture Capital, Greenfield Partners, Atreides Management, and Exor Ventures. The company revealed in a statement that ...

February 22, 2024

Israel

Musk to provide Israel with Starlink acces upon approval from Israel

Last month, Elon Musk mentioned that he would look into providing Gaza with its Starlink service to "support connectivity to internationally recognized aid organizations in Gaza." In recent developments, Israel has responded to Musk saying Starlink's satellite network will only be allowed to ...

November 29, 2023

Israel

Gaza completely loses Internet access again after another outage

Internet services have now returned in Gaza after another outage, which took the connectivity in the entire country down for several hours. This disruption occurred just before 3:00 a.m. local time, with Palestinian telco Paltelco announcing that connectivity to the Gaza Strip had been cut off...

November 01, 2023

Israel

Vultr expands in Tel Aviv with new data center location

Vultr has announced that it is expanding its global footprint with a new data center location in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company shared that this is part of a wider expansion plan to democratize access to cloud infrastructure. This addition means that the company now offers full-stack infrastr...

May 02, 2023

Israel

Techtonic planning 16MW underground data center

Techtonic is investing hundreds of millions of NIS ($55m+) in an underground data center, referred to as Titan 4, in Bet Shemesh, 20km east of Jerusalem. The facility will have a capacity of 16MW facility and pegged span an area of 15,000 square meters (161,450 sq ft) across 10 data halls. It ...

February 21, 2023

Israel

Goldacre Signs JV with Levinstein To Develop Data Center in Israel and Launch Middle Eastern Business

Goldacre and Levingstein Group have entered into a joint venture to launch a data center business for the Middle East data center market. The two companies secured land in the city of Netanya, Israel, to develop their first data center. NED Data Centers, a subsidiary of Goldacre’s parent compa...

December 06, 2022

Israel

Berkshire Partners To Acquire 49% Stake in MedOne for $215 million

Berkshire Partners is moving to acquire a 49 percent stake in MedOne, an Israeli data center company. The US private investment company is leading a coalition of companies to make the acquisition possible. MedOne currently operates more than 270,000 square feet (25,000 square meters) of data c...

July 20, 2022

Israel

Severfarm moves into Middle East

Severfarm has announced its expansion into the Middle East with the development of ISR3, its first hyperscale facility in Israel. The facility will have 9MW of critical capacity, supporting Israel's "accelerating digital economy" and launch in the latter half of 2022.Currently, the company's o...

December 14, 2021

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Alibaba is Planning an Israeli cloud region

According to reports, Chinese firm Alibaba is considering setting up a cloud region in Israel. Globes says Alibaba has been considering the move for some years, but the covid-19 pandemic caused the delay. Besides, Alibaba is not thinking about building its own facility; instead, it will be hos...

October 29, 2021

Israel

Bank of Israel's data center project reaches completion

The Bank of Israel's Information Technology Department has announced the completion of its data center project. The facility is built to Tier 4 standard and is reportedly close to receiving its official certification from the Uptime Institute. The data center has also been built with green tec...

October 28, 2021

Israel

Amazon to open the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region by 2023

Amazon Web Services has announced that it would be opening its new data center region in Israel. Jeff Barr, the Chief Evangelist for AWS, said that plans for the new data center region are in place and that it would open in the first half of 2023. He further added that the region would have th...

June 13, 2021

Amazon Israel: Tnuvot

Underground data center planned south of Nazareth, Israel

Europe-Israel Group, P.A.I, Swiss fund Lian Group and singer Israeli singer Omer Adam have partnered up to build a NIS 400 million ($122.5 million) underground data center in Israel. Based on a 6.25-acre site in Afula, south of Nazareth, construction is expected to begin later this year, with ...

May 07, 2021

Israel

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