Hive Digital Partners with Bell Canada for 5 MW AI Infrastructure Deployment

Hive Digital's BUZZ HPC has partnered with Bell Canada to deploy a nationwide AI infrastructure. The partnership will integrate NVIDIA-accelerated GPU clusters with Bell's fibre network, data centers, and partner ecosystem. The collaboration will begin with a 5 MW deployment in Manitoba and expand to other Bell AI Fabric sites across multiple provinces. The infrastructure will comply with Canadian data residency and cybersecurity regulations and support AI foundational model development, fine-tuning, and inference.

HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd.'s (TSX.V: HIVE) wholly owned subsidiary, BUZZ High Performance Computing (BUZZ HPC), has partnered with Bell Canada to establish one of Canada's largest sovereign AI ecosystems through Bell AI Fabric. The partnership will integrate NVIDIA-accelerated GPU clusters with Bell's fibre network, data centers, and partner ecosystem. The collaboration will begin with a 5 MW deployment in Manitoba, featuring NVIDIA Ampere, Hopper, and Blackwell GPU clusters integrated into Bell AI Fabric's advanced fibre network, data centres, and partner ecosystem, including Cohere [1].

BUZZ HPC's large-scale NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure, purpose-built for AI, machine learning, and scientific computing, will be integrated with Bell AI Fabric's advanced fibre network, data centres, and partner ecosystem. This combined capability supports a range of use cases, including developing AI foundational models and fine-tuning existing models all within Canada. By expanding accelerated computing infrastructure across multiple provinces, the collaboration ensures true nationwide reach. Canadian innovators will gain access to high performing NVIDIA accelerated computing, hosted in secure, Canadian-owned facilities that comply with strict data residency and cybersecurity regulations [2].

The collaboration aims to support a range of national objectives, including secure, sovereign AI, nationwide access to advanced AI tools, enhanced innovation and competitiveness, and sustainable, scalable growth. The infrastructure will be powered by renewable energy, contributing to an eco-conscious path to AI development [1].

BUZZ HPC's infrastructure will begin with a 5 MW deployment in Manitoba, followed by expansion into other Bell AI Fabric data centres. These deployments are designed to support a wide range of national objectives, including secure, sovereign AI, nationwide access to advanced AI tools, enhanced innovation and competitiveness, and sustainable, scalable growth [1].

The partnership forms a comprehensive AI solution for the Bell AI Fabric ecosystem. BUZZ HPC provides the foundational hardware layer for large-scale AI workloads; Cohere delivers customized large language models; Ateko brings specialized professional services; and Bell offers Canada's most advanced network and data centre backbone all working together to accelerate Canada's leadership in artificial intelligence [1].

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[1] https://www.hivedigitaltechnologies.com/news/buzz-high-performance-computing-partners-with-bell-canada-to-deliver-advanced-sovereign-nvidia-ai-infrastructure-for-canada/
[2] https://www.stocktitan.net/news/HIVE/buzz-high-performance-computing-a-subsidiary-of-hive-digital-yl6uhxfd0asg.html