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Jerusalem’ s cool climate helps, with cold night time temperatures reducing energy use at the company’ s sites.
“ We do everything we can to reduce our electricity and energy use, but I also design our water systems to save as much water as they can,” says Moti.“ We’ ve implemented reverse osmosis systems to purify water for cooling and operational purposes and are already seeing savings from that.”
Israel’ s market evolution The Israeli data centre market has slowed over the last two years, with instability in the region causing hyperscalers and cloud providers to pause investment decisions – a sentiment that is shifting.“ We are certainly seeing some of the larger companies making decisions that indicate they are ready to build and develop here again,” says Eli.“ We are a high-tech country with well-developed infrastructure in IT and cloud, and our goal as a business is to focus on building fast and focusing on meeting the demand.”
As part of its strategy to date, Bynet has invested heavily in secure underground facilities built 30 metres below ground that serve defence and federal government requirements. But the massive growth in AI-driven demand requires a different approach.
“ I’ m very focused on this area now from a strategic perspective,” Eli says.“ There is of course a need for federal and secure data centres, but the next evolution of our strategy is on finding land and building AI-ready data centres quickly.”
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Site: 10 Total MW: 256 Total Square Metres: 61,900
Focused on strategic growth To deliver on this strategy, the company has secured land for three new sites that will collectively deliver approximately 250MW of capacity over the next three years. The scale of individual sites has shifted dramatically, too.
“ If you told me two years ago I would build 128MW hyperscale data centers, I would not believe you,” Eli says.“ For me and our shareholders, 20MW used to be big, but if we want to be in the game of hyperscaling, we need to be looking at a future of 200MW data centres.”
The approach to site selection has evolved. Historically, Bynet would identify suitable land and then work to bring power to that location. Now the process is inverted. One of the most persistent challenges is the fundamental mismatch between demand and supply timelines. In Eli’ s previous roles selling storage or cloud services, inventory was effectively unlimited, but data centres don’ t work that way.
“ If you take a decision now, you need to wait three years for the inventory,” he says.“ It makes it challenging to deal with customers when you know you bynetdcs. co. il