MedOne + Digital Realty: What This Global Data Center Deal Actually Means for Builders

Who is MedOne, and why does that matter here?

MedOne, founded in 1997, is Israel's largest and most trusted carrier-neutral data center provider, with more than 25 years running colocation, interconnection, and hybrid cloud services for the country's most demanding customers. The company operates four ultra-secure underground facilities in Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva, Tirat HaCarmel, and Ramle, totaling over 25,000 square meters of live data center space, with seven additional facilities under development that will push total capacity past 250MW of IT power and 110,000 square meters nationwide. Its client list includes the Israeli government, defense-adjacent technology firms, banks, healthcare providers, and multinational tech giants, the kind of customers that don't tolerate weak security or unreliable uptime. In 2022, Berkshire Partners and the van Rooyen Group acquired a 49% stake in MedOne, a signal of institutional confidence in the platform's long-term trajectory.

What makes MedOne's infrastructure different from a typical data center?

MedOne's facilities are built underground, not as a marketing gimmick but as a structural response to physical isolation requirements, and are engineered to run independently for 72 consecutive hours during emergencies. The company also has over 15 years of experience managing high-performance computing environments, delivering 100% SLA guarantees for performance and availability, with the ability to allocate up to 200kW of power per rack for the most demanding AI and HPC workloads. Its newest mega-scale campuses in Kfar Yona, Ramle, and Dimona are purpose-built for cloud providers, AI/HPC clusters, and government-grade requirements.

What is this partnership, actually?

MedOne just partnered with Digital Realty, the world's largest data center network operator, valued at $79B in enterprise value with 5,000+ enterprise customers globally. Digital Realty runs PlatformDIGITAL®, a network of 300+ facilities across 55+ metros in 30+ countries. The short version: MedOne now acts as your single point of contact and billing entity for deploying infrastructure inside Digital Realty's global network, instead of you signing separate contracts in every country you expand into.

Why should a builder or startup care about this?

If you've ever tried to expand infrastructure into a second or third country, you know the pain isn't technical, it's operational. Different vendor, different contract, different currency, different support line, different compliance paperwork. This partnership removes that multiplication problem entirely. One relationship with MedOne now covers deployment across 30+ countries, so you're not managing five vendor relationships to run infra in five regions.

Does this replace AWS, Azure, or GCP?

No, and that's an important distinction. This is colocation and private infrastructure, not public cloud. What makes it interesting for hybrid setups is ServiceFabric®, described as the industry's largest open network, offering 305+ Cloud On-Ramps with direct, encrypted connections into AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, bypassing the public internet entirely. If you're running hybrid cloud, colocated hardware talking to AWS through a private, low-latency link, this is exactly the connectivity layer that supports it.

What about GPU and AI workloads specifically?

This is where MedOne's HPC track record actually compounds the value of the partnership. MedOne brings over 15 years of HPC and high-density infrastructure experience to the table, layered on top of Digital Realty's explicit support for Sovereign AI, GPU infrastructure, and high-density colocation. If you're training models or running inference at scale and need infrastructure outside hyperscaler public cloud, whether for cost, latency, or data residency, MedOne's rack-level power density (up to 200kW per rack) combined with Digital Realty's global footprint gives you a real option.

How does pricing and billing actually work?

You get one quote, in local currency, and one invoice, regardless of how many regions you deploy into. Currency exposure is a cost most teams underestimate. If your revenue is in shekels but you're paying data center bills in dollars or euros across multiple foreign vendors, FX swings eat into margins every month. This model eliminates that entirely for the infrastructure line item.

What's the actual deployment process?

It runs in a few clear steps, according to MedOne's published process:
A planning session where MedOne's technical team maps location, capacity, connectivity, and compliance needs
A single quote in local currency
Deployment on PlatformDIGITAL® in the target region
Ongoing invoicing and support, backed by Digital Realty's on-site teams at the physical facility
There's no separate legal negotiation per country. MedOne is the counterparty throughout.

Is this actually secure, or just marketing?

MedOne backs its infrastructure with a 99.999% SLA, nine security certifications, and underground facilities designed for 72-hour independent operation during emergencies, built on more than 25 years serving institutions that don't tolerate security shortcuts, including government agencies, banks, and healthcare providers. Digital Realty adds its own credibility: ranked #1 co-location provider in the US by IDC MarketScape, with an investment-grade enterprise rating. Neither side is a startup taking a bet here.

What compliance frameworks does this actually cover?

For regulated industries, deployments in metros like Frankfurt, London, or New York come with documentation aligned to frameworks like DORA, MiFID II, and PCI-DSS bundled into the deployment process rather than negotiated separately with each vendor. If you're a fintech or handling financial data, this removes a real bottleneck, since compliance paperwork often takes longer than the actual technical deployment.

What kind of capacity are we talking about?

As of Digital Realty's September 2025 platform data, the network has 2,980MW of active IT capacity, 730MW under construction, and 475MW available near-term. On MedOne's side, the Israeli buildout alone is scaling toward 250MW of IT power across eleven facilities, positioning it as the operator expected to become the largest in Israel by live IT capacity.
Does Israel actually matter in this global network, or is it just a reseller

relationship?

Tel Aviv is listed as a recognized metro on Digital Realty's global map, alongside Frankfurt, Singapore, London, and New York. Israel isn't being sold into as an external market, it's a node inside the network itself, and MedOne serves as the critical bridge for telecom connectivity between the Middle East and Western Europe. MedOne isn't just reselling access, it's the operational and trust layer that makes that node function for local companies.

Who is this actually built for?

Four groups get the most direct benefit based on how the partnership is structured:
Global enterprises with an Israeli HQ that need centralized visibility across regions
SaaS and tech scale-ups expanding into new markets without opening a local legal entity
Fintech and financial firms needing regulatory-compliant, low-latency infrastructure abroad
Teams building disaster recovery and business continuity plans that require geographic redundancy outside Israel

Bottom line: should you care?

If your growth plan involves infrastructure outside Israel, whether for latency, compliance, disaster recovery, or AI/HPC capacity, the calculation just got simpler. MedOne brings 25 years of proven data center leadership and 15 years of HPC expertise to a partnership that now spans 30+ countries and 55+ metros through Digital Realty. For most teams weighing where to deploy next, the real question isn't whether this network covers your roadmap, it's why you'd still manage separate vendor relationships when one already does the job.