Bell Canada and Hive Digital Technologies' Buzz HPC have expanded their partnership to bring sovereign AI infrastructure to Merritt, British Columbia, in Canada.

The two have previously worked to deploy Nvidia AI infrastructure in Manitoba, Canada.

Revealed today, March 25, Buzz has secured 6.5MW of capacity at Bell's Merritt facility, with the option to increase capacity as it becomes available over time.

Buzz will deploy GPU clusters at the site and is expected to come online in the coming weeks. The type and number of GPUs planned for the site have not been shared.

John Watson, group president of business markets, AI, and Ateko at Bell, said: "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 2028."

Craig Tavares, president and COO at Buzz, added: "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."

Plans for Bell's Merritt facility were announced in 2025, along with five other data centers with a total of 500MW of capacity targeted. At the time, the Merritt data center was said to be targeting 7MW of capacity and to open later in 2025.

Earlier this month, Buzz revealed that it had expanded its capacity in Canada approximately fourfold, with the company also revealing it would be entering British Columbia. At the time, however, Buzz only said it would be providing an initial 5MW of capacity, scalable up to 7.6MW. Buzz estimated that 5MW would support more than 2,000 GPUs, and 7.6MW would support up to 3,000 GPUs. It is unclear if this is the same capacity that has been revealed by Bell, or an additional project.

Hive (formerly Hive Blockchain) was founded and went public in 2017. The crypto firm has mining sites in Canada, Sweden, and Paraguay.

Originally known as Hive Cloud, Buzz offers access to Nvidia H100s, A6000s, A5000s, A40s, and H200s. Its cloud currently totals 2.2MW of capacity across Stockholm, Sweden (800kW) and Montreal, Canada (1.4MW). Hive acquired a 7.2MW data center in Toronto in 2025 for Buzz's use.