NVIDIA expands presence in occupied Palestine despite AI’s role in Israeli genocide in Gaza

NVIDIA has announced plans to establish a major new research and development campus in Kiryat Tivon, in northern occupied Palestine, a move that further entrenches the US tech giant’s involvement in Israel’s occupation and genocide against Palestinians.

Speaking on Thursday, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang claimed, “Israel is home to some of the world’s most brilliant technologists and has become NVIDIA’s second home,” adding, “Our new campus will be a place where our teams can collaborate, invent, and build the future of AI.”

NVIDIA is a US-based technology company best known for its graphics processing units (GPUs), whose hardware and software platforms have become foundational to modern artificial intelligence by powering the training and deployment of large-scale AI models across data centers, research labs, and industry.

The multiyear project will reportedly involve several billion dollars in investment and is being promoted by Israeli officials as a boost to employment, housing, and the regime’s broader economic growth, benefits that stand in stark contrast to the devastation inflicted on Palestinians under occupation and siege.

Construction of the campus is scheduled to begin in 2027, with completion expected by 2031. The planned site will cover 22 acres and include around 160,000 square meters of built space, featuring laboratories, collaborative work areas, and landscaped zones. NVIDIA says the complex could house more than 10,000 employees.

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The announcement underscores NVIDIA’s deepening commitment to Israel, which has already become the company’s second-largest development hub outside the United States.

The firm currently employs about 5,000 people from the regime, with its main base in Yokneam, built on the infrastructure of Mellanox Technologies, which NVIDIA acquired in 2020 for $7 billion.

Beyond Yokneam, NVIDIA occupies roughly half of the Rubinstein Towers in Tel Aviv and has recently unveiled plans to expand in Be’er Sheva, where it aims to hire hundreds of workers at the Gav-Yam high-tech park.

The new Kiryat Tivon campus will be the company’s eighth center in the occupied territories, further cementing its material and technological complicity in Israel’s occupation of Palestine.

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This expansion comes as Israel continues its genocidal war on Gaza, launched on October 7, 2023, which has taken the lives of at least 71,000 people and wounded more than 171,000 others, the vast majority of them women and children.

Throughout the war, the regime has increasingly relied on advanced AI systems to identify targets, carry out killings, and systematically level civilian infrastructure.

While companies such as Google and Microsoft have faced sustained backlash over their collaboration with Israel and their role in enabling the Gaza genocide, NVIDIA has largely escaped comparable scrutiny from governments, international bodies, and major human rights organizations.

This silence is especially striking given NVIDIA’s status as the world’s most valuable conglomerate and its central role in the rapid expansion of AI technologies.

Israel’s privileged access to tools developed by NVIDIA is likely to intensify the regime’s repression of Palestinians and further destabilize an already volatile region.

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