- HIVE Digital Technologies has signed a major three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell AI Fabric for AI startup Cohere, valued at approximately $220 million.
- The deployment of 2,304 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs is expected to contribute around $70 million in annual recurring revenue, boosting HIVE’s total contracted HPC revenue target to over $100 million.
- The deal is part of a wider pivot among Bitcoin miners toward AI infrastructure, coinciding with a sharp 10.09% drop in Bitcoin mining difficulty and declining BTC holdings for miners like HIVE.
HIVE Digital Technologies announced a major expansion into AI infrastructure, as its subsidiary BUZZ HPC signed a three-year GPU cloud contract worth $220 million with Bell AI Fabric to support AI startup Cohere. The deal, revealed on June 18, 2026, involves deploying 2,304 NVIDIA GPUs at a Bell Canada data center in British Columbia.
Consequently, HIVE expects the project to generate $70 million in annual recurring revenue once operational. This will increase the company’s total contracted high-performance computing revenue target to more than $100 million, according to the company. The investment will be funded from proceeds of a $115 million convertible note completed in April.
The news boosted HIVE’s stock price by around 9% at the time of writing, with shares up almost 24% over the past month. Meanwhile, the sector-tracking CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF (WGMI) rose 5.4% on the day. This strategic move follows HIVE’s reported decline in its Bitcoin treasury holdings, which fell to 150 BTC from 481 BTC the previous quarter, data shows.
However, this AI pivot occurs as Bitcoin mining faces significant headwinds. Bitcoin mining difficulty plummeted 10.09% on June 14, one of the largest downward adjustments in network history. The Energy Mag noted this was due to weaker mining economics and miners dedicating power to AI projects.
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