BCE Inc. launches $300M Bell AI Fabric deal with Hive Digital subsidiary for Canadian sovereign AI infrastructure
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Bell Canada (BCE Inc.) has announced Canada's largest AI compute initiative — a $300 million deal called Bell AI Fabric. The partnership brings together BCE, AI company Cohere, hardware maker Hypertec, and BUZZ High Performance Computing, a subsidiary of Hive Digital Technologies. Hive Digital originally built its business mining Bitcoin before pivoting into AI infrastructure. The initiative is designed to keep Canadian data on Canadian soil, emphasizing data sovereignty.
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Twitter / XBCE Inc. launches $300M Bell AI Fabric deal with Hive Digital subsidiary for Canadian sovereign AI infrastructurecryptobriefing.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledBell Canada just signed what's being called the country's largest AI compute initiative, a $300 million infrastructure play designed to keep Canadian data on Canadian soil.
BUZZ HPC is a subsidiary of Hive Digital Technologies, a company that built its business mining Bitcoin before pivoting hard into AI infrastructure.
The collaboration ce
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