Nebius’s Israeli AI Supercomputer Opens Subsidized Access to Industry and Researchers

Israel’s national AI supercomputer is operating, and a government-backed access program offers discounted computing to companies and researchers. The Israel Innovation Authority confirmed the infrastructure was live on January 18, 2026, moving the program beyond its earlier award and construction commitments. Public documents reviewed for this article do not establish how much of the service is being used or the earnings generated at the site.

The computing is provided by Nebius, whose October 2025 disclosure places its Israeli AI Cloud deployment at a colocation facility in Modi’in. Globes reported in January that the existing 8-megawatt site hosts the national supercomputer. The arrangement connects a publicly traded cloud operator, a physical data-center provider and government-supported research demand.

From tender award to computing access

The authority selected Nebius in May 2025 following a competitive process. Its award announcement described investment exceeding NIS 500 million, including NIS 160 million in government support. CTech’s contemporaneous reporting, which included an interview with the authority’s chief executive, covered the selection and intended deployment. These published amounts describe the announced program; the reviewed documents do not establish total expenditure or support already paid.

Nebius announced its Israeli deployment on October 20, 2025, identifying NVIDIA Blackwell computing, InfiniBand networking and associated software. That company disclosure establishes the operator’s account of the deployment. The authority’s January announcement subsequently confirmed that the national computing infrastructure was operational. Neither document provides measured utilization or campus financial results.

How the discounts work

The authority’s current voucher call describes a monthly allocation framework of 1,000 NVIDIA B200 accelerators, split 70% for industry and 30% for academic research. Eligible industrial applicants can obtain a 30% discount from published market prices; eligible academic institutions can receive an 80% discount. Approval and research eligibility requirements apply.

Industrial applications must seek at least 16 accelerators, with approved usage periods lasting one to six months. Those terms describe access to computing resources, not evidence that the entire allocation has been awarded or consumed. Scheduled application and decision windows similarly do not establish actual customer usage.

The government allocation is also distinct from the broader Blackwell deployment described by Nebius. The two figures should not be combined into an additional hardware count, and neither provides a current audit of installed equipment or billable usage.

Separate roles and separate financial figures

Nebius provides the cloud computing service. Mega Or’s data-center subsidiary, Mega DC, supplies physical hosting, according to January reporting by Globes and CTech. NVIDIA is the disclosed computing and networking technology participant. The Innovation Authority administers the national program and discounted-access framework.

CTech reported that Mega DC’s earlier Modi’in agreement provided 8 megawatts of capacity and was expected to generate annual net operating income of NIS 35 million. Net operating income is a facility-level financial measure; the reported amount is a forecast, not verified realized earnings and not Nebius’s cloud revenue.

The same reporting covers a separate 80-megawatt arrangement at Masmiyya and Beit Shemesh, with a reported construction estimate of $880 million. Those sites and figures do not belong to the Modi’in campus. Globes also described a planned Modi’in expansion; reviewed sources do not verify that additional capacity has been delivered.

What remains undocumented

The sources establish an operating computing service and a defined subsidy mechanism. They leave actual resource consumption, recipient allocations, site-level revenue and margins unresolved. A project-specific utility agreement, tariff and measured IT load were not established in this review.

Published allocation results, usage figures and financial disclosures would provide the next evidence of how the program is being used. Any expansion requires its own delivery evidence. The existing operating confirmation should not be treated as proof of full campus utilization or completion of later phases.