HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd

HIVE Digital Technologies subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing Inc. has entered a strategic partnership with Vancouver-based applied-AI and data engineering company ProCogia, the companies said Wednesday. Under the agreement, ProCogia will procure dedicated GPU capacity from BUZZ HPC's Canadian data centers and layer its applied-AI stack, including LLM hosting, bespoke model training, agentic systems and vertical AI products, on top of that infrastructure for enterprise and small- and medium-sized business clients in Canada, the United States and Europe. ProCogia is deploying dedicated compute on BUZZ HPC's infrastructure while becoming a preferred applied-AI services partner for BUZZ HPC's customers, with plans to co-sell into the U.S. and Europe. ProCogia will use the partnership as a cloud launchpad for its proprietary ZeroBoxx AI framework, and its vertical AI products, CallYeah, a voice-AI solution for healthcare providers, and PolyKode, a code-migration LLM for regulated environments, will run on BUZZ HPC capacity as anchor workloads. Aydin Kilic, CEO of HIVE Digital Technologies, said BUZZ HPC was built so that Canadian companies with real AI ambition would never have to choose between accelerated computing infrastructure and sovereignty over their data, while ProCogia Founder and CEO Meharpratap Singh said the partnership addresses what has historically been the biggest bottleneck for smaller SMB and mid-market clients.

HIVE Digital Technologies has appointed veteran capital markets executive Hubert Marleau as an Independent Director of its wholly owned subsidiary, BUZZ High Performance Computing, or BUZZ HPC. Chief Financial Officer Darcy Daubaras said the move is designed to strengthen governance and strategic oversight as the company expands its sovereign AI infrastructure platform across Canada. Marleau brings more than five decades of experience across North American capital markets and has served as a current or former director of more than 50 publicly traded companies in Canada and the United States. He co-founded Palos Capital Corp. and Palos Management Inc. and has held leadership roles including Governor of both the Montreal and Vancouver stock exchanges, Chairman of the Toronto Stock Exchange Listing Committee, and a director of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada, now known as IIROC. Daubaras said Marleau's expertise in corporate governance and capital formation will be particularly valuable as BUZZ HPC builds out its AI-focused infrastructure platform, including two clusters planned for a facility in Merritt, British Columbia, developed in partnership with Bell Canada.

HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd has appointed Mark Volk as Senior Vice President of Revenue, part of an expansion of its artificial intelligence infrastructure strategy that Executive Chairman Frank Holmes said includes a potential GPU cloud pipeline worth more than $1 billion. Holmes told Proactive that Volk had worked with HIVE for nine months before taking the position full time and had already helped build that potential GPU cloud pipeline. He said Volk's experience would be important as HIVE scales its data centre operations and seeks to turn computing infrastructure into contracted revenue, pointing to the company's activities in Paraguay and its partnership with Bell Canada as examples of that scaling strategy. Holmes also said HIVE had broken the $1 million-a-day barrier and had maintained that level for the past couple of weeks, and he positioned artificial intelligence as the company's next growth engine alongside its established Bitcoin operations, which he described as HIVE's cash engine. Holmes said GPUs are substantially more expensive than Bitcoin-mining ASICs but can generate 30, 40 times more revenue per hour per chip, adding that every megawatt has a job with HIVE and that the company would move toward AI at locations where AI could earn a better return than Bitcoin.

HIVE Digital Technologies reported fiscal Q1 2027 revenue of $79.1 million, up 73% year-over-year, and announced a new $350 million five-year HPC/AI contract with an investment-grade tenant. The company's HPC/AI business reached $180 million in contracted revenue, including the new deal, while adjusted EBITDA turned positive at $13.4 million, a $22 million improvement from the prior quarter. HIVE posted a GAAP net loss of $142.9 million, driven by an $84.7 million noncash Swedish VAT provision and $53.7 million in depreciation. Bitcoin mining revenue was $72.1 million, about 90% of total revenue, with production of approximately 1,004 Bitcoin equivalent during the quarter. Cash position strengthened to $208 million at quarter end, up from $23 million at March 31, following a $130 million zero-coupon exchangeable notes offering.

A growing number of former Bitcoin miners are repositioning themselves as AI and high-performance computing infrastructure providers, using their existing power assets and land holdings to compete for long-term, contracted revenue from hyperscalers and AI labs. Hut 8 disclosed a $26.6 billion contracted backlog alongside $7.5 billion in non-convertible, non-recourse debt financing, with projected average annual net operating income of $1.75 billion across 949 MW of contracted capacity. IREN Limited has secured over $2.8 billion in multi-year contracts with Microsoft and Nvidia, with 85% of 2026 annual recurring revenue already contracted as it targets a 5 GW capacity buildout by 2028. HIVE Digital Technologies announced a $350 million, five-year AI cloud services agreement through its BUZZ HPC unit, bringing total contracted AI annual recurring revenue above $100 million. Digi Power X is building toward a $140 million+ annualized contracted run rate by 2027, anchored by a $1.1 billion take-or-pay contract with Cerebras for 40 MW in Alabama, while Keel Infrastructure Corp controls 574 MW across four HPC-earmarked sites funded by $819 million in liquidity. Analysts are broadly constructive on the transition thesis, but consistently flag dilution risk, contract execution, and interest-rate sensitivity as the primary threats to current valuation multiples.

DigitalOcean shares rose 2.9% in afternoon trading after its Cloudways unit launched Managed AI Agents, a new product line that lets customers deploy open-source agents OpenClaw and Hermes through the same managed-hosting dashboard used for websites and apps. The company cited more than 386,000 GitHub stars for OpenClaw and more than 228,000 for Hermes, suggesting the move could turn hosting open-source AI agents into another managed plan and be accretive to growth. The announcement followed positive sentiment in the broader AI cloud services sector, as peer HIVE Digital Technologies signed a five-year, $350 million cloud services agreement with an enterprise customer. DigitalOcean shares were trading at $135.24, up 4.1% from the previous close.

HIVE Digital's stock jumped 14% after the company announced a five-year artificial intelligence cloud computing contract with Nvidia worth $350 million U.S. The deal, the largest AI cloud contract for HIVE, is expected to add $70 million U.S. in annual revenue, bringing the company's annual recurring revenue to about $180 million U.S. HIVE will deploy 2,016 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs at its data centre in Merritt, British Columbia, requiring approximately $185 million U.S. in capital spending. Once fully operational in the fourth quarter, the GPU cloud business is expected to generate $500,000 U.S. per day in revenue.

Diana Shipping withdrew its offer to acquire the remaining shares of Genco Shipping & Trading after failing to agree on deal terms, sending its stock up 10%. Diana's withdrawn proposal included $24.80 in cash plus one Diana share valued at $2.54 per Genco share, while Genco's board sought $27.50 in cash, more than $2 in dividends, and three Diana shares, implying roughly $36.91 per Genco share, or a 42% premium to Diana's August 13 closing price. HIVE Digital Technologies surged 8% after BUZZ HPC signed a five-year, approximately $350 million GPU cloud services agreement, adding about $70 million in annualized revenue and taking BUZZ HPC's total annualized revenue to roughly $180 million. Etsy gained 2% after Goldman Sachs initiated coverage at Neutral with an $89 price target, citing muted GMV and active-buyer growth since 2022 but improving buyer trends in the first half of 2026.

Stock futures edged higher on Monday as traders returned from the long weekend, with crypto-related stocks, Tesla, and United Microelectronics among the biggest movers. United Microelectronics rose 6% after reporting June revenue climbed 22.9% year-over-year to NT$23.1 billion, while first-half 2026 revenue increased 11.3% to NT$129.8 billion. Crypto stocks rallied as Bitcoin topped $63,000 for the first time in two weeks, lifting Strategy by 5% and pushing Circle Internet Group, Riot Platforms, Marathon Digital, Coinbase, and HIVE Digital Technologies up more than 3% each. Tesla gained 2% after expanding its Robotaxi service to Miami, building on last month's Austin launch and following record second-quarter deliveries of 480,126 vehicles. Kosmos Energy surged 5% on strong operational momentum, including the J76 well in Ghana adding about 20,000 barrels of oil per day and lifting Jubilee production above 85,000 barrels per day, while the company reduced net debt by more than $400 million since year-end 2025 to $2.56 billion.

HIVE Digital Technologies announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary HIVE Bermuda 2026 intends to offer $100 million aggregate principal amount of 0% exchangeable senior notes due 2031 in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers. The issuer also expects to grant initial purchasers an option to purchase up to an additional $15 million aggregate principal amount of notes. Separately, HIVE signed a non-binding letter of intent with an investment-grade, sovereign Swedish technology company for an up to 10-year lease of its 32 megawatt Boden, Sweden facility, which it expects to retrofit to support up to 10,000 GB300 GPUs. Additionally, its subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing executed a three-year GPU cloud contract with a total contract value of approximately $220 million as part of a sovereign AI infrastructure deal involving Bell Canada and Cohere.

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness has initiated a new stake in Hive Digital Technologies valued at $6,443,939. Hive Digital, originally a renewable energy Bitcoin miner, is drawing attention for its AI cloud subsidiary BUZZ High-Performance Computing, which rents out GPU clusters and is an Nvidia Cloud Partner. BUZZ recently signed a two-year $30 million contract for 504 B200 GPUs, expected to boost its annualized revenue by roughly 75%, and management has guided for $225 million in total HPC annual recurring revenue by the end of 2026. The company also partnered with AMC Robotics Corporation and has a strategic relationship with Bell Canada, upgrading its facilities with high-speed optical fiber connections. Hive’s most recent quarterly revenue grew about 230%, with gross operating margin expanding to 36% from 22% a year earlier.

HIVE Digital's stock surged 12% after the company secured a $220 million U.S. investment from Bell Canada and artificial intelligence firm Cohere. The three-year deal will see HIVE's high-performance computing unit deploy 2,304 Nvidia processors at Bell's AI facility in British Columbia, providing dedicated computing capacity for Cohere's enterprise AI models serving Canada's federal government and corporate clients. All infrastructure will remain on Canadian soil, supporting Ottawa's push to reduce reliance on foreign-controlled AI technologies. The project is expected to be operational by early 2027, adding roughly $70 million U.S. in annual recurring revenue to HIVE Digital, whose contracted HPC revenue now exceeds $100 million U.S.

HIVE Digital Technologies has received approval from the Boden Municipal Council to acquire the Big Boden 32 MW data center from Bodens Utvecklings AB, the facility that has anchored its Swedish operations since 2018. The acquisition transitions HIVE from tenant to owner, giving it full authority over the site's future. Over eight years, HIVE has invested more than SEK 960 million, approximately $100 million, in the Boden region through local contractors and renewable energy procurement, and has paid more than SEK 575 million, over $60 million, in taxes to the Swedish Tax Authority. HIVE shares rose 2.3% in post-market trading.