BCE's Bell expands Hive partnership in Merritt, B.C.

Mr. John Watson reports BELL CANADA AND BUZZ HPC PARTNER TO ADVANCE SOVEREIGN ACCELERATED GPU INFRASTRUCTURE AT BELL AI FABRIC FACILITY IN MERRITT, B.C. BCE Inc.'s Bell Canada is continuing to grow its Bell AI Fabric project through an expanded partnership with Buzz High Performance Computing (HPC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hive Digital Technologies Ltd. (TSX-V: Hive), to deliver advanced, sovereign AI infrastructure in Merritt, B.C. Buzz HPC has secured an immediate 6.5 megawatts of gross capacity at the Bell AI Fabric Merritt facility with an option for potential additional power that may become available over time. At this site, Buzz HPC will continue scaling its next-generation GPU clusters for commercial use. Expected to come on-line in the coming weeks, the facility represents the next step in Bell AI Fabric's data centre supercluster, providing Canadian organizations with the high-performance computing capacity needed to drive the next generation of artificial-intelligence innovation. The Merritt data centre is specifically engineered to handle AI's most intense computational demands. Powered by Buzz HPC's specialized high-density, liquid-cooled infrastructure and accelerated GPU compute, the facility provides the design, implementation and scaling expertise required for complex AI workloads, including inference and training. John Watson, group president, business markets, AI and Ateko, Bell, said: "We are excited to deliver cutting-edge AI infrastructure and deployment expertise to our customers through our partnership with Buzz HPC at our Merritt facility. This partnership provides another important layer to the Bell AI Fabric ecosystem, delivering the advanced workloads our customers need in a sovereign, private and secure Canadian facility. Partnerships like these are instrumental to BCE Inc. delivering on our ambition to grow our revenue from AI-powered solutions to $2-billion by 2028." About Buzz HPC Buzz, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hive Digital Technologies Ltd., and an Nvidia Cloud Partner, delivers enterprise-grade cloud services and large-scale GPU clusters in vertically integrated data centres. We seek Safe Harbor.