Hive Digital Technologies just made the kind of bet that signals where crypto-native companies think the real money is heading. The company announced plans to build a 320 MW AI gigafactory in the Greater Toronto Area, a facility designed to support AI and machine learning workloads at a scale that would make it one of the largest of its kind in Canada.
The project, developed through Hive’s BUZZ High Performance Computing unit, carries a projected capital investment of approximately CAD $3.5 billion. At full build-out, the facility aims to house more than 100,000 GPUs, with an operational target set for the second half of 2027.
What Hive is actually building
The company has already started assembling the physical footprint. Land acquisitions in the Greater Toronto Area total 25 acres across two purchases: $46M for a 21-acre parcel and $12M for an adjacent 4-acre plot. That’s $58M just for the dirt, before a single server rack gets installed.
The facility will utilize a closed-loop cooling system, which is Hive’s nod toward clean energy infrastructure. Cooling is one of the biggest operational headaches in high-performance computing. Traditional data centers can burn through enormous amounts of water and electricity just keeping chips from overheating. A closed-loop system recirculates coolant rather than pulling fresh water continuously, reducing both environmental impact and long-term operating costs.
