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Sovereign AI gets a $220M anchor in Canada.

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HIVE's BUZZ HPC closed a roughly $220M GPU contract with Bell Canada's AI Fabric to run Cohere's models entirely on Canadian infrastructure, adding about $70M in annual recurring revenue, go-live late 2026 to early 2027. Bell data centers, Cohere LLMs, NVIDIA compute, one national stack. Regulated buyers paying a premium for in-country hosting is becoming a real procurement category, not a slide. (HIVE)

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