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HIVE BUZZ plans C$3.5B Toronto sovereign AI gigafactory

HIVE Digital Technologies + BUZZ HPC

Primary sourcePress release only2026-05-18
Deal structureAI data-center campus investment / sovereign GPU cloud buildout
GeographyGreater Toronto Area / Toronto-Waterloo corridor, Ontario
Infrastructure layersData centers + cloud capacity + power + cooling
Disclosed scaleApproximately C$3.5B planned capital investment for a 320 MW Greater Toronto Area AI gigafactory designed to host more than 100,000 GPUs at full build-out

Why it matters

The strategic read

Adds Canada to the current wave of industrial-scale AI factory announcements. HIVE is pairing land acquisition, a 320 MW power allocation, closed-loop cooling, and sovereign cloud positioning into a domestic GPU campus aimed at enterprise, research, public-sector, and national-priority AI workloads.

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What was disclosed

  1. 01

    HIVE announced that BUZZ HPC is advancing a planned industrial-scale AI infrastructure facility in the Greater Toronto Area with approximately 320 MW of utility capacity.

  2. 02

    The company says the project is expected to become one of Canada’s largest AI gigafactories and is designed to host more than 100,000 GPUs at full build-out.

  3. 03

    BUZZ acquired a roughly 21-acre main parcel for C$46M plus an adjacent roughly 4-acre parcel for C$12M, creating a contiguous site tied to the 320 MW power allocation.

  4. 04

    HIVE lists the target online window as the second half of 2027 and the planned capital investment at approximately C$3.5B.

  5. 05

    The release says BUZZ has secured major milestones along the 320 MW power pathway in the Toronto-Waterloo innovation corridor.

  6. 06

    The facility is designed for high-efficiency AI compute using closed-loop cooling with a no-water-use approach consistent with BUZZ HPC’s sustainability strategy.

  7. 07

    HIVE says it now has more than 850 MW of power globally, including 450 MW of operating data centers plus a 400 MW pipeline expected to come online in 2027.

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What is known—and what is not

Primary company announcement with forward-looking project details; customer contracts, definitive financing, GPU purchase orders, utility interconnection documents, construction/EPC awards, exact site permits, and final delivery milestones are not public.