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Interior Health selects Hut 8 as data centre partner for co-location high performance computing services
Services will be delivered at Hut 8's flagship Kelowna data centre over five years TORONTO, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Hut 8 Mining Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT)
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[{"type":"text","content":"Services will be delivered at Hut 8's flagship Kelowna data centre over five years\nTORONTO, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Hut 8 Mining Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT) (TSX: HUT) (\"Hut 8\" or the \"Company\"), innovation-focused high performance computing infrastructure provider, has signed an agreement with Interior Health, trusted health authority that delivers public health, hospital care, long-term care, community-based and primary health care services to people across southern British Columbia, to support their operations by delivering safe, secure, and reliable colocation services from the company's flagship Kelowna data centre through 2028.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\"We've been investing in our high-performance computing business, as well as in our customers, and are proud to expand our services further into the health sector,\" said Josh Rayner, VP of High Performance Computing at Hut 8. \"We are honoured to have been chosen as Interior Health's trusted high performance computing infrastructure provider.\"\nWith five data centres located in B.C. and Ontario, Hut 8 delivers colocation, public and private cloud, and managed services to government, private-sector, and non-profit organizations across a variety of industries including finance, gaming, technology, AI, and more.\n\"We look forward to partnering with Hut 8 as our new hosting facility and infrastructure provider,\" said Mark Braidwood, executive director technology at Interior Health. \"In an increasingly interconnected world, businesses are demanding more reliable, secure, and scalable hosting options to ensure optimal performance and uninterrupted operations.\"\nAbout Hut 8Hut 8 is one of North America's largest innovation-focused digital asset miners, led by a team of business-building technologists, bullish on bitcoin, blockchain, Web 3.0 and bridging the nascent and traditional high performance computing worlds. With two operational digital asset mining sites located in Southern Alberta, Hut 8 has one of the highest capacity rates in the industry and one of the highest inventories of self-mined Bitcoin of any digital asset miner or publicly-traded company globally. With over 36,000 square feet of geo-diverse data centre space and cloud capacity connected to electrical grids powered by significant renewables and predominantly emission-free sources, Hut 8 is revolutioniz...