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Bell Canada and BUZZ HPC partner to advance sovereign accelerated GPU infrastructure at Bell AI Fabric facility in Merritt, B.C.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\nBell Canada and BUZZ HPC partner to advance sovereign accelerated GPU infrastructure at Bell AI Fabric facility in Merritt, B.C.\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n.prngen2{\nPADDING-RIGHT:0.17em; PADDING-LEFT:0.17em; VERTICAL-ALIGN: TOP; TEXT-ALIGN: LEFT; BORDER-TOP:black 1pt; BORDER-RIGHT:black 1pt; BORDER-BOTTOM:black 1pt; BORDER-LEFT:black 1pt\n}\n.prnml4{\nMARGIN-TOP:0em; MARGIN-RIGHT:0em; MARGIN-BOTTOM:0em; MARGIN-LEFT:0.33em !IMPORTANT\n}\n.prnml40{\nMARGIN-LEFT:3.33em !IMPORTANT\n}\n.prnbcc{\nBORDER-COLLAPSE: COLLAPSE\n}\n.prntac{\nTEXT-ALIGN: CENTER\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\n\n\nNew facility delivers advanced accelerated compute infrastructure to help enterprise and government organizations scale AI workloads securely within CanadaThis news release contains forward-looking statements. For a description of the related risk factors and assumptions, please see the section entitled \"Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Statements\" later in this news release.MONTRÉAL, March 25, 2026 /CNW/ - Bell Canada (TSX: BCE) today announced the continued growth of Bell AI Fabric through an expanded partnership with BUZZ High Performance Computing (HPC), a wholly owned subsidiary of HIVE Digital Technologies LTD. (TSXV: HIVE), to deliver advanced, sovereign AI infrastructure in Merritt, B.C.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBUZZ HPC has secured an immediate 6.5 MW of gross capacity1 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 online 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 AI 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 facilit...