Hive Digital, one of the leading companies for sustainable digital infrastructure, announced its first live GPU compute nodes added to the BUZZ AI cloud platform in Paraguay. The company has already been serving the computing needs of an academic team from Columbia University in New York.
Hive Digital Technologies is upgrading its compute facility in Asunción, Paraguay, to use sustainable energy for a new GPU compute cluster. The deployment is the first cluster to go live based on Hive’s strategy of adding AI layers and high-performance compute to its existing energy facilities.
The GPU cluster is part of a Tier-III data center operated by Paraguay’s leading telecom provider, and is purpose-built for AI model training, inference, and academic research.
The academic team is using BUZZ Cloud GPU for research on LLM pre-training and the training of foundation models.
Hive Digital plans to grow Tier-III compute centers
Hive Digital will track the GPU cluster performance to establish a proof-of-concept for AI compute, connecting New York clients with a remote compute location. The initial test will offer a non-commercial product, which will generate valuable performance data on latency, throughput, and workload management.
“HIVE has 300 MW of renewable hydroelectric power operational in Paraguay, with another 100 MW in development. Before scaling an AI factory, it’s prudent to beta test. This deployment marks our first live GPU compute workload in Asuncion and provides the real- world performance data we need to guide our Tier-III expansion roadmap,” said Frank Holmes, Executive Chairman of Hive Digital
If successful, the company aims to build future Tier-III data center capacity in another city, with infrastructure to achieve high-uptime, low-latency GPU compute.
The data centers will use hydroelectric generation and the country’s fiber optic infrastructure. The company will grow based on projected South American and global commercial demand to expand at the Tier-III data center compute levels.
The team will optimize its computation to improve model quality while reducing compute and memory costs. The academics will be trading GPT-3 and LLaMA style models, later scaling to larger models.
Hive Digital gained its foothold in Paraguay through Bitcoin mining, later layering AI and high-capacity compute into the mix.
Hive Digital retains its BTC treasury
Hive Digital retained 2,201 BTC in its legacy treasury from mining, with no warnings of selling. Other leaders like Mara Holdings announced the possibility of liquidating some of its treasury reserves to fund AI expansion.
Hive Digital also retains up to 23.7 EH/s in BTC mining capacity, while also upgrading its mining operations with the latest rig models. Hive Digital will continue to offer offshore mining to third parties as one of its main sources of revenue.
HIVE stock is currently at $2.21, closer to the higher range for the past month. The shares crashed from $6.63 on October 10, reflecting the overall attitude of the crypto market. For now, HIVE is not following the AI expansion narrative, unlike leading mining and AI corporations like IREN. However, the addition of more AI and computing facilities may help HIVE break away from the crypto narrative.
Source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/hive-digital-launches-gpu-cluster-paraguay/
