HIVE pipes GPU compute 5,000 miles from Paraguay to Columbia University

Key Summary

HIVE Digital Technologies successfully completed a research project with Columbia University, testing AI training with GPUs in Paraguay and researchers in New York, 5,000 miles apart. The project used HIVE's Nvidia A40 GPUs in Paraguay to run pre-training workloads for large language models, achieving performance comparable to Nvidia's H100 chips under specific conditions. The collaboration generated real-world measurements on latency and throughput, determining the practicality of long-distance AI training. HIVE aims to commercialize its HPC business in Paraguay, with construction on a new data center projected to start in Fall 2026.