BYNET DATA CENTRES
quickly expanded its portfolio of data centres from five to seven and is in the progress of building key new facilities in Jerusalem and Soham.
Eli has been CEO since the company was spun off from the Bynet Group, where he gained 12 years’ experience in data centres and infrastructure. He was Bynet Data Centers’ first employee and has been instrumental in driving its vision, mission and strategy from the outset, where the company entered the Israeli market as real estate players, contributing to lower prices and positively impacting the market.
His approach is underpinned by more than 25 years of experience in technology and data in Silicon Valley for companies including AWS, Hitachi Data Systems and NetApp – a period in which he has seen the industry transform at pace.
“ I’ ve touched every part of that data, cloud and infrastructure journey during my career, and I really understand the data environment and decision making that companies and our customers have to take,” he says.“ When I was at NetApp, I never believed you would put data on a cloud, but that has changed so quickly, with most companies now taking a hybrid approach to their data – it’ s transformed our strategic approach at Bynet.”
AI-led industry evolution For years, growth in data centres was driven by a relatively linear approach based around storage requirements: disks got bigger, data volumes increased and organisations needed more space.
“ The data centre you planned two or three years ago just won’ t work in the future if you haven’ t ensured every aspect is AI-ready”
Moti Tau, Chief Technology Officer, Bynet Data Centres
The global pace of AI innovation and adoption, however, has forced builders and operators to shift their methodology.
“ It’ s been a revolution,” says Eli,“ but we are now at the point where storage is not a challenge, compute is. And with that comes more difficult requirements around energy management, finding the land for large-scale projects, cooling and sustainability.”
Bynet’ s customer base of more than 120 organisations across its five operational data centres provides clear evidence of this shift, Eli says. Racks requirements that began at 5 kW are now closer to 30-40 kW, for example.
Moti Tau, Bynet’ s Chief Technology Officer, is seeing the transformative nature of AI firsthand. Moti joined Bynet Data Centers in late 2024, after five years with the Bynet Group. Prior to this, he worked as a consultant on large-scale data centre projects and spent time at IBM. bynetdcs. co. il