Bell Canada just signed what’s being called the country’s largest AI compute initiative, a $300 million infrastructure play designed to keep Canadian data on Canadian soil. The deal brings together telecom giant BCE Inc., AI company Cohere, hardware manufacturer Hypertec, and BUZZ High Performance Computing.
That last name is the one crypto investors should pay attention to. BUZZ HPC is a subsidiary of Hive Digital Technologies, a company that built its business mining Bitcoin before pivoting hard into AI infrastructure.
What Bell AI Fabric actually is
The collaboration centers on Bell AI Fabric, a platform designed to bundle data centers, high-speed connectivity, and NVIDIA-powered accelerated computing into a single offering for Canadian enterprises, government agencies, and research institutions.
The facilities are based in Merritt, British Columbia, with an initial $300 million investment going toward the data center build. The core selling point is data residency. Everything stays in Canada, which matters enormously for government contracts and regulated industries that can’t legally ship sensitive information across borders.
