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ProductJune 18, 2026HIVE Digital Technologies

Bitcoin miner HIVE signs $220M 3-year sovereign AI GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere

HIVE's pivot from BTC mining to AI infrastructure hits critical mass: a $220M contracted-revenue deal deploying NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs for Canadian sovereign AI adds ~$70M ARR and validates the miner-to-HPC-provider transition thesis.

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