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BUZZ HPC, Cohere and Bell AI Fabric sovereign GB200 cluster
BUZZ HPC, HIVE Digital's AI cloud unit, signed a three-year GPU cloud contract worth about $220M to run an NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 cluster of about 2,300 GPUs for Cohere at Bell's Merritt, British Columbia facility. In Oct 2026 HIVE said a $129M fixed-rate loan covers about 80% of the $165M cluster, with delivery expected late Q4 2026.
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- Status
- Announcedoperating
- Announced
- 2026-06-185 months ago
- Active for
- 5 months
Who’s involved
BUZZ HPC is the sovereign AI-cloud subsidiary of HIVE Digital Technologies, pivoted from crypto mining, renting on-demand and reserved NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, HGX B200, H200 and H100 clusters (with InfiniBand) from data centers in Quebec, New Brunswick and British Columbia. It launched a 504-GPU cluster backed by ~$30M in contracts and holds a large sovereign GPU contract with Bell and Cohere.
Most-frequent partners
Enterprise AI company building language models optimized for retrieval and tool use, relevant to robot instruction parsing and task planning.
Most-frequent partners
Canadian communications company (BCE). Via Bell AI Fabric, building AI data-centre capacity including a 300 MW campus in the Rural Municipality of Sherwood near Regina, Saskatchewan (CoreWeave and Cerebras named tenants; first stage targeted 1H 2027).
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Sources (2)
- https://www.hivedigitaltechnologies.com/news/hives-buzz-hpc-closes-usd-220-million-sovereign-ai-gpu-contract-with-bell-ai-fabric-for-cohere-inc/ · 2026-06-18
- https://www.hivedigitaltechnologies.com/news/hives-buzz-hpc-secures-approximately-129-million-at-90-fixed-rate-financing-at-80-loan-to-cost-to-expand-sovereign-ai-infrastructure/ · 2026-10-27
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