HIVE Digital Technologies has brought its BUZZ Artificial Intelligence Cloud platform online in Asunción, Paraguay, with live GPU compute nodes now serving workloads from an academic research team at Columbia University in New York. The deployment is the first GPU cluster to go live under the company’s phased plan to add Artificial Intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure to its renewable energy operations in Paraguay. HIVE is using the project to test whether Paraguay can support low-latency, high-availability GPU cloud services for customers outside the country.
The Columbia University team is using the BUZZ Cloud infrastructure for large language model pre-training and end-to-end foundation model training. The work focuses on optimization algorithms designed to improve model quality while reducing computational and memory costs, with performance evaluated through training metrics such as loss and perplexity as well as downstream benchmarks. Their work begins with small- to medium-scale models (0.2B to 2B parameters, including GPT-2-class and LLaMA-style architectures) and is scaling to larger models (8B+ parameters) using multi-GPU distributed training frameworks. In early experiments, Muon has shown roughly 1.3x greater efficiency1 than standard baselines by exploiting the structure of model weights.
HIVE said the live research workloads will provide operational data on latency, throughput, and workload management between New York and Asunción. The company plans to use that information to shape a broader expansion strategy, with initial deployment targets through 2027. It expects the current cluster to serve as a proof of concept before further Tier III data center development in Yguazú, where additional infrastructure upgrades would be needed to support larger-scale GPU cloud services.
The company argues Paraguay is well suited for this buildout because of abundant hydroelectric power and fiber connectivity. HIVE’s existing 300-megawatt (“MW”) renewable power base, sourced from hydroelectric generation, combined with the telecom partner’s enterprise-grade network infrastructure, creates a platform that can serve demanding workloads originating outside Paraguay’s borders, including from North American institutional clients. Frank Holmes said HIVE has 300 MW of renewable hydroelectric power operational in Paraguay, with another 100 MW in development. Management also pointed to Paraguay’s recent economic growth, stable governance, and openness to foreign infrastructure investment as supportive conditions for future expansion.
