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HIVE, a company best known for mining Bitcoin, says it has signed about $600 million in deals to rent out computing power for artificial intelligence.
Most of that money is not flowing yet. Of roughly $185 million a year it has lined up, only about $40 million comes from machines already running. The rest depends on buying specialized chips, preparing buildings and switching on electricity.
It is a real-world test of whether old crypto-mining sites can become the warehouses that power chatbots.
Crypto Briefing reported that HIVE Digital Technologies has signed approximately $600 million in AI cloud contracts in 2026 through BUZZ HPC, its subsidiary that rents out GPU computing power. Three primary contracts make up the total, led by a roughly $225 million three-year sovereign AI deal with Bell AI Fabric, which supports AI developer Cohere, and a roughly $350 million five-year contract with an unnamed investment-grade enterprise customer. The report also cited a $129 million loan to expand NVIDIA-based GPU capacity and a target of about $200 million in GPU cloud annual recurring revenue by the end of 2026.
HIVE’s second-quarter fiscal 2027 results, furnished in an 8-K filed November 10, put contracted GPU cloud annualized run-rate revenue (ARR) at approximately $185 million as of September 30, 2026, of which approximately $40 million is currently live. Total quarterly revenue was $84.9 million and the GAAP net loss was $78.7 million.
Executive Summary
HIVE has assembled a contract book for AI computing that is large relative to the business it currently runs. BUZZ HPC’s revenue for the quarter ended September 30 was $8.8 million, up 70.7% year over year, while contracted GPU cloud ARR stands at about $185 million. HIVE’s results release states plainly that contracted ARR includes capacity that has not entered service and is not equivalent to recognized revenue.
That distinction is the story. Roughly $145 million of the $185 million in annualized contracted revenue depends on capacity HIVE still has to bring online, which makes the company’s next phase an execution exercise in GPU procurement, data center fit-out and power allocation rather than a sales exercise.
The Bitcoin business is funding the transition: it produced $76.0 million of the quarter’s $84.9 million in revenue despite what Executive Chairman Frank Holmes described as a 27% decline in Bitcoin prices. A $31.2 million impairment on mining equipment, recorded in the same quarter, shows the pressure on that engine even as HIVE leans on it.
The $145 Million Between Signed and Switched On
Annualized run-rate revenue, or ARR, is a snapshot of how much a business would earn in a year at its current pace. HIVE reports two versions: about $40 million of live GPU cloud ARR from capacity already serving customers, and about $185 million of contracted ARR that includes the live figure. The difference, roughly $145 million a year, is revenue that exists on paper until the corresponding GPUs are racked, powered, cooled, networked and accepted by customers. That is close to 80% of the contracted total.
Simple arithmetic shows where the gap likely sits. Spread evenly, the $225 million three-year Bell AI Fabric contract works out to about $75 million a year, and the $350 million five-year enterprise contract to about $70 million a year. Together that is roughly $145 million, almost exactly the distance between live and contracted ARR. The match is a straight-line calculation rather than a reconciliation HIVE has published, and real contracts often ramp unevenly, but it is consistent with the two headline deals being largely capacity still to be delivered.
The scale of the step is the operational point. BUZZ’s $8.8 million in quarterly revenue annualizes to roughly $35 million, in line with the live ARR figure. Reaching the contracted run rate means growing the GPU business more than fourfold, and the year-end target of about $200 million implies most of that conversion is expected within a quarter. For the two anchor customers, lenders and shareholders alike, the value of the $600 million headline now depends on delivery dates, not signatures.
Hydro Megawatts Are Not Yet AI Megawatts
HIVE’s core asset is power. The company operates approximately 440 megawatts of capacity, including an approximately 300 MW platform in Paraguay, and expects to reach about 540 MW once an additional 100 MW power purchase agreement at Yguazú is energized in the fourth quarter of calendar 2026. Its sites run on hydroelectricity in Canada, Sweden and Paraguay, a meaningful advantage when AI developers are competing for clean, available grid connections.
But HIVE itself distinguishes between Tier I facilities that host Bitcoin mining and Tier III facilities that host AI workloads. In data center classification, Tier I means basic infrastructure with single paths for power and cooling; Tier III means redundant components that can be maintained without shutting down customer equipment. Mining rigs tolerate interruptions; enterprise GPU clusters under multi-year contracts generally do not. Converting megawatts from one class to the other takes capital, building work and cooling systems suited to dense GPU servers.
HIVE’s own disclosures show that conversion under way: HPC growth this quarter came primarily from an NVIDIA B200 GPU cluster in Manitoba, and higher administrative costs reflected a lease at a facility in Merritt tied to HPC expansion. The new 100 MW at Yguazú is unallocated, which HIVE presents as flexibility to direct power toward whichever of mining, AI or HPC offers better returns, subject to the infrastructure each requires. How much of the existing 440 MW is already AI-grade, and how much of the new capacity will be, determines how quickly contracted ARR can become live ARR.
Mining Cash Flow Is Funding the Pivot
The quarter shows both the support and the strain of the Bitcoin business. Digital currency revenue was $76.0 million, up 5.5% sequentially as HIVE received 1,070 Bitcoin, up from 1,004 the prior quarter, helped by average network difficulty falling to about 128 trillion from 135 trillion. Adjusted EBITDA, a measure of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization and certain non-cash items, rose 85% sequentially to $24.8 million.
The GAAP net loss of $78.7 million was driven by non-cash charges: $54.9 million of depreciation, the $31.2 million mining equipment impairment, $8.6 million of share-based compensation and a $7.3 million change in the fair value of derivatives. HIVE attributed the impairment to challenging mining economics and lower market values for ASICs, the single-purpose chips used in Bitcoin mining. Heavy depreciation is also a preview of the GPU business, where expensive hardware is written down over a few years.
On the balance sheet, HIVE held $139.0 million in cash and $22.6 million in digital currencies at September 30. Set against that, the $129 million loan for NVIDIA-based capacity adds leverage, and the 10-Q filed November 9 details existing term loans and convertible notes. HIVE also designated its results announcement under a shelf prospectus supplement dated June 16, 2026, the framework that allows it to issue securities. Funding a fourfold GPU expansion while the mining fleet loses value is the balancing act the next several quarters will test.
Steadier Revenue, Narrower Base
The strategic case is sound on its face: mining revenue swings with the Bitcoin price and network difficulty, while a five-year cloud contract pays on a schedule. Contracted revenue from investment-grade or established counterparties is the kind of income public markets tend to value more highly than mining output.
The trade-off is concentration. The two largest contracts account for about $575 million of the roughly $600 million total, and one counterparty is identified only as an investment-grade enterprise. The Bell AI Fabric deal links HIVE to the sovereign AI trend, in which governments and national champions seek computing capacity kept under domestic control, and to Cohere as an end user. A delay or dispute with either anchor customer would weigh heavily on the GPU business while it remains this small.
Background
HIVE Digital Technologies, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, and listed on the TSX, Nasdaq and Colombia’s BVC, describes itself as a provider of sustainable data center infrastructure. It built its business mining Bitcoin at hydro-powered sites in Canada, Sweden and Paraguay, and now runs two lines: Tier I facilities exporting Bitcoin mining compute and Tier III facilities renting AI computing capacity to enterprise customers through BUZZ HPC.
HIVE is one of several publicly traded Bitcoin miners redeploying power and real estate toward AI workloads, a shift driven by the shortage of energized data center capacity for GPU clusters and by miners’ search for steadier revenue than block rewards provide. Its fiscal year ends March 31, so the quarter ended September 30, 2026 is its second quarter of fiscal 2027. Source: HIVE Digital Technologies signs $600 million in AI cloud contracts — Crypto Briefing via TradingView, on HIVE’s AI cloud contract book, financing and quarterly results. Primary sources: HIVE Digital Technologies Form 8-K, filed November 10, 2026; Exhibit 99.1: HIVE Reports Q2 Revenue of $84.9 Million with AI GPU Revenue Expanding 70%; HIVE Digital Technologies Form 10-Q, filed November 9, 2026.Sources