Dalia Power (TASE: DLIA) has acquired a license from the Ministry of Communications to assemble an anchor station for a submarine fiber optic cable on the Eshkol website subsequent to Ashdod Port, “Globes” has discovered. Dalia Power is believed to be planning to put a submarine cable with its personal financing or in partnership with European gamers. At current it doesn’t plan to deploy on its website the cables which are already within the strategy of planning and approval: the submarine cable of Sizzling-Tamares and a bunch of Greek telecommunications operators (EMC), or that of the Keystone-Kobi Richter consortium (TEAS).
The submarine cable will serve Dalia Power for the transmission and storage of information on the server farm that it’s constructing within the space with an output of 200 megawatts and a price of billions of shekels, and can help it within the high-speed transmission of information to different server farms abroad. The server farm will primarily be used as an AI manufacturing facility, that’s, an set up for coaching and working AI fashions, for which high-speed communications with different server farms all over the world are vital.
Because the planning and financing of Dalia Power’s submarine cable proceed, and in accordance with progress on the development of the facility plant and server farm on the website, the corporate will resolve whether or not to open up the fiber optic cable to native telecommunications networks as effectively, however that may require the corporate to use for a telecommunications working license.
The corporate might additionally plan to increase the cable eastwards, with an overland connection to Jordan or the Pink Sea, a situation that within the present geopolitical state of affairs will not be doable due to Saudi Arabia’s shunning of Israel and adherence to the Turkey-Qatar axis.
Dalia Power purchased the Eshkol energy station in June 2024, and is at the moment developing a brand new, 850-megawatt energy plant on the location at an funding of over NIS 10 billion, and alongside it a 200-megawatt server farm. The proximity of the server farm to the facility plant, seawater cooling channels, and a submarine fiber optic cable, will allow it to course of information at excessive charges and to draw companies fascinated by proximity to a server farm, resembling algo buying and selling corporations and AI know-how corporations.
Dalia Power won’t start to put the cable earlier than it obtains approval from the Planning Administration, which at current favors concentrating submarine cable landings at current factors: Tirat Carmel and Tel Aviv. The Ministry of Communications favors the other strategy: deploying fiber optic cables at as many factors alongside Israel’s shoreline as doable, to be able to keep away from over-dependence on just a few touchdown factors.
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No response to the report was forthcoming from Dalia Power.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on January 26, 2026.
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