• New facility delivers advanced accelerated compute infrastructure to help enterprise and government organizations scale AI workloads securely within Canada

Montréal, Canada –  Bell Canada (TSX: BCE) today announced the continued growth of Bell AI Fabric through an expanded partnership with BUZZ High Performance Computing (HPC), a wholly owned subsidiary of HIVE Digital Technologies LTD, to deliver advanced, sovereign AI infrastructure in Merritt, B.C.

BUZZ HPC has secured an immediate 6.5 MW of gross capacity¹ at the Bell AI Fabric Merritt facility with an option for potential additional power that may become available over time. At this site, BUZZ HPC will continue scaling its next-generation GPU clusters for commercial use. Expected to come online in the coming weeks, the facility represents the next step in Bell AI Fabric's data centre supercluster, providing Canadian organizations with the high-performance computing capacity needed to drive the next generation of AI innovation.

The Merritt data centre is specifically engineered to handle AI's most intense computational demands. Powered by BUZZ HPC's specialized high-density, liquid-cooled infrastructure and accelerated GPU compute, the facility provides the design, implementation and scaling expertise required for complex AI workloads, including inference and training.

"We are excited to deliver cutting-edge AI infrastructure and deployment expertise to our customers through our partnership with BUZZ HPC at our Merritt facility. This partnership provides another important layer to the Bell AI Fabric ecosystem, delivering the advanced workloads our customers need in a sovereign, private and secure Canadian facility. Partnerships like these are instrumental to BCE Inc. delivering on our ambition to grow our revenue from AI-powered solutions to $2 billion by 2028²."

-       John Watson, Group President, Business Markets, AI and Ateko, Bell

This partnership brings together BUZZ HPC's expertise in GPU-accelerated computing with Bell AI Fabric, a full-stack AI offering anchored by the company's nationwide fibre network, data centre infrastructure, software, cloud capabilities, advanced professional integration services and partner ecosystem – allowing Canadian innovators to access massive compute power while adhering to strict data residency standards with a comprehensive, made-in-Canada AI solution.

"BUZZ HPC is expanding its AI infrastructure with Bell AI Fabric across two Canadian provinces, including new capacity in British Columbia to scale near-term deployments. This marks a major step in BUZZ's journey to become a leading national sovereign AI platform, scaling our reach to serve both Canadian innovators and international customers. Together, Bell and BUZZ are delivering the secure, high-performance accelerated compute Canada needs to compete globally in AI."

-       Craig Tavares, President and COO, BUZZ HPC

"Purpose-built AI infrastructure – sometimes described as AI factories – is essential to transforming compute power into intelligence at scale and accelerating the potential of AI technology. Through our partnership with Bell AI Fabric, we are providing Canadian companies with sovereign compute to help them deploy AI securely and at scale to support advanced use cases across sectors ranging from healthcare to defence and beyond."

-       Frank Holmes, Executive Chairman, BUZZ HPC

Today's announcement expands upon Bell and BUZZ HPC's previously announced partnership to deploy high-performance GPU clusters in Bell AI Fabric's sovereign facilities.