An artificial intelligence data center company, partially owned by Omer Adam, signed a $1 billion deal on Sunday with Crusoe, an AI infrastructure giant that will be landing in Israel for the first time with this agreement.
Adam’s company, Anan, will establish and operate a 40-megawatt server farm for Crusoe at its data center in the northern city of Afula, with plans to expand capacity in the future.
Server farms serve as “unified supercomputers” for processing large amounts of data used to train AI models, with Crusoe being one of the fastest-growing companies in the world, developing this technology.
Anan, founded by Adam along with Maor Malul and Nissim Sariel-Gaon, said the site's total capacity is expected to reach 100 megawatts across tens of thousands of square meters, with power redundancy systems, advanced cooling, generators, and high availability.
This marks a new step in Anan’s expansion in Israel, with its projects expected to reach a total capacity of over 500 megawatts thanks to several binding agreements signed in the last couple of months with foreign AI investors and companies.
“We welcome the agreement with Crusoe and see them as a long-term strategic partner going forward. This collaboration is the first step in a broad move to establish a global AI infrastructure platform from Israel to the world,” said Anan in a statement.
Not a traditional data center
Anan was founded four years ago with the goal of becoming one of Israel’s main players in the AI infrastructure sector, with a clear focus on establishing its data centers outside traditional processing models. In contrast, Anan develops its infrastructure with AI training and platform maintenance in mind.
Crusoe, which currently operates sites for AI giants such as OpenAI and Oracle, raised $1.4 billion in October 2025, reaching a $10 billion valuation and becoming one of the fastest-growing companies in the sector.
“We see Anan as a central and significant strategic partner for our operations in Israel. As part of the expansion of our operations in the region, we are working to deepen our local presence through expert teams with a long-term view of Israel as an important center for global AI activity, with Anan being our leading local partner,” Crusoe said about the deal.
Israel establishes first sovereign AI data center for critical infrastructure
The news comes as Israel positions itself as one of the world's strategic AI data-center hubs, with infrastructure that is becoming critical to private and public operations worldwide.
One example is the January announcement that Israeli AI company DREAM opened a sovereign AI data center near Modi’in, which involves tens of millions of dollars in investments, and is designed to serve national agencies and critical infrastructure operators that require full control over data, model training, and deployment environments.
The data center includes a GPU cluster built on NVIDIA B200 systems, enabling DREAM to train proprietary language models and domain‑specific AI systems.
The company develops its own models rather than relying solely on public foundation models, targeting sectors such as cybersecurity, healthcare, transportation, finance, as well as decision‑support systems for government agencies.
Anna Ahronheim contributed to this report.