HIVE's BUZZ HPC Closes USD $220 Million Sovereign AI GPU Contract with Bell AI Fabric for Cohere Inc.

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HIVE's BUZZ HPC Closes USD $220 Million Sovereign AI GPU Contract with Bell AI Fabric for Cohere Inc.This news release constitutes a "designated news release" for the purposes of the Company's amended and restated prospectus supplement dated June 16, 2026 to its short form base shelf prospectus dated October 31, 2025.Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 18, 2026) - HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. (TSX: HIVE) (NASDAQ: HIVE) (FSE: YO0) (BVC: HIVECO) (the "Company" or "HIVE"), through its wholly owned subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing Inc. ("BUZZ HPC"), today announced a landmark sovereign AI infrastructure deal involving Bell Canada (TSX: BCE) (NYSE: BCE) and Cohere Inc., marking a significant milestone in Canada's AI infrastructure ecosystem.The collaboration brings together Bell AI Fabric's national data centre and connectivity platform, Cohere's security-first enterprise-grade AI solutions and large language model capabilities, and BUZZ HPC's NVIDIA-accelerated GPU cloud and AI factory expertise into a single, integrated Canadian AI stack. Together, the companies are delivering full-stack, production-grade sovereign AI infrastructure built in Canada, for Canadian enterprise and government customers.BUZZ HPC has executed a three-year GPU cloud contract with a total contract value of approximately USD $220 million. Through BUZZ HPC, HIVE has procured NVIDIA AI infrastructure powered by 2,304 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs as a part of NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rack-scale systems interconnected with NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand scale-out networking, built to NVIDIA reference architecture standards and utilizing advanced liquid cooling.BUZZ HPC will deploy its sovereign AI cloud and GPU cluster infrastructure at Bell's purpose-built facility in Merritt, British Columbia. The deployment will provide the high-performance compute layer on which Cohere will operate its foundation models and enterprise AI solutions for government and corporate customers across Canada. BUZZ HPC's AI factories are powered by renewable energy and designed for ultra-low power usage effectiveness (PUE), bringing industrial-scale GPU capacity to one of Canada's most strategically important AI deployments.Canada's federal AI strategy has a clear mandate: invest in Canadian technology sovereignty and keep Canadian data secure under Canadian control. This partnership directly su...

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