HIVE Launches GPU Cloud Cluster in Paraguay Supporting Columbia University AI Research

HIVE Digital (NASDAQ: HIVE) Technologies Ltd. has announced the commencement of operations at its BUZZ AI Cloud platform located in Asunción, Paraguay. This deployment includes live GPU compute nodes and represents the initial phase of the company’s strategy to integrate AI and high-performance computing infrastructure into its existing renewable energy assets in Paraguay.

The GPU cluster is situated within a Tier-III data center managed by Paraguay’s largest telecommunications company. The facility is designed to support AI model training, inference, and other computationally demanding research tasks, leveraging HIVE’s 300-megawatt renewable power supply derived from hydroelectric sources.

A research team from Columbia University in New York is currently utilizing the BUZZ Cloud infrastructure for a non-commercial project focused on large language model (LLM) pre-training, including training foundation models ranging from 0.2 billion to over 8 billion parameters.

The researchers are developing and testing optimization algorithms such as Muon and MuonClip, which aim to enhance model quality while reducing computational and memory requirements. Their work employs multi-GPU distributed training frameworks and evaluates performance using metrics like loss, perplexity, and downstream benchmarks.

HIVE is analyzing the performance data from these active LLM training jobs to assess latency, throughput, and workload management. This information will guide the company’s roadmap for scaling its HPC capacity in Paraguay, with initial expansion plans targeted through 2027.

Paraguay’s abundant hydroelectric power and the telecom partner’s nationwide fiber network provide a strong foundation for delivering reliable, low-cost AI compute services. The country’s stable governance and favorable investment climate further support HIVE’s vision to develop Paraguay as a key AI infrastructure hub in South America.