Tech giant NVIDIA submitted a Request for Information (RFI) on Sunday morning, seeking to purchase land in northern Israel to construct its newest research data center facility, according to Israeli reports.
The RFI is for land ranging in size from 70 to 120 dunams, with construction planned to be between 80,000 and 180,000 square meters. For comparison, Microsoft’s Herzilya campus covers about 45,000 square meters, and Intel’s Haifa facility weighs in at approximately 40,000.
NVIDIA’s request is for the land to be available for immediate purchase and construction, and does not rule out the possibility of purchasing land from regional municipalities, kibbutzim, or moshavim, hoping to locate the facility near its existing campus in Yokne’am. The company is also seeking land with “high accessibility to transportation, near main traffic routes and public transportation."
NVIDIA will be accepting bids for land until July 23rd.
NVIDIA's Israeli presence
Announced in January, the new campus will significantly expand NVIDIA’s operations in Israel, reportedly adding thousands of new hires to the company's current 5,000 employees, who are based in offices throughout the country.
This push for expansion comes only months after NVIDIA more than doubled its presence in Tel Aviv’s Rubinstein Twin Towers, leasing 10 floors in addition to the original eight that were agreed upon in 2022.
NVIDIA has established itself as a powerhouse in Israel following its 2019 acquisition of Mellanox, an Israeli-American multinational supplier of computer networking products, and during the creation of the Israel-1 AI supercomputer, which last year ranked 34th on the TOP500 list of the world’s supercomputers. It is well on its way to becoming one of Israel's largest hi-tech companies and private corporations.
Eve Young contributed to this report.