HIVE Digital (HIVE) Stock Rallies After Columbia Validates Paraguay AI Infrastructure

TLDR

• HIVE stock jumped over 22% on Monday after Columbia University researchers validated its Paraguay-based AI GPU infrastructure.
• Researchers found HIVE’s older Nvidia A40 GPUs matched H100 performance on certain LLM pretraining workloads.
• Training runs were conducted from New York on GPUs located 5,000+ miles away in Asunción, Paraguay.
• The research has been submitted to NeurIPS, a major machine learning conference.
• A 100MW substation in Yguazú, Paraguay is expected to be energized in September 2026, with a Tier III data center to follow.

HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE) stock surged more than 22% on Monday, trading above $7 during morning hours, after Columbia University researchers validated the performance of its Paraguay-based AI GPU cluster.

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The study, completed in collaboration with Columbia’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, found that HIVE’s Nvidia A40 GPUs in Paraguay could match the performance of Nvidia H100 systems on specific large language model pretraining workloads — up to 1.4 billion parameters.

Researchers optimized their code for the A40 hardware over two months, then measured throughput, latency, and bandwidth. After normalizing for raw hardware performance, the A40 results aligned with what they’d seen on H100 systems for their specific use case.

The team also ran serving throughput and latency tests on the 1.4B-parameter model, along with standard benchmarks for LLaMA models.

The research has been submitted to NeurIPS — the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems — one of the most respected venues in machine learning.

Training From 5,000 Miles Away

One of the more eye-catching elements of the study: researchers in New York ran iterative training runs on GPUs physically sitting in Asunción, Paraguay — over 5,000 miles away.

Executive Chairman Frank Holmes said the results show that “high-performance computing does not need to be limited by geography.” CEO Aydin Kilic called the A40-H100 performance parity a “powerful result” that validates the company’s engineering-led approach.

The data gathered from the project will serve as a foundation for HIVE’s planned AI campus in Yguazú, Paraguay.

Paraguay Gigafactory Taking Shape

HIVE is moving ahead with a large-scale AI and HPC facility in Yguazú. Civil works on a 100-megawatt substation are complete, with commissioning expected this summer and full energization targeted for September 2026.

Construction of a Tier III data center is scheduled to begin in fall 2026. HIVE expects the facility to enter service in the second half of 2027.

The company framed the Columbia collaboration as external validation for its broader push to move beyond Bitcoin mining and into the AI infrastructure market.

The 100MW substation commissioning is now the next near-term milestone on HIVE’s infrastructure roadmap.

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