Hello, and welcome to today's webcast covering HIVE Digital Technologies financial results for fiscal Q1 2027. My name's Nathan Fast, Director of Marketing and Branding at HIVE, and I'll be your moderator for today's call.

Before we get started on slide two, I'd like to briefly note the disclosures for today's presentation. Except for statements of historical fact, this presentation contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S.

Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as expects, believes, and similar expressions identify these statements.

Actual results could differ materially, and we disclaim any obligation to update them except as required by law. For a full discussion of risk factors, please refer to our most recent SEC filings at sec.gov.

In addition to discussing results that are calculated in accordance with GAAP, we will also reference certain non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted EBITDA, adjusted net income, and free cash flow. Management uses these metrics to evaluate operating performance and believes they provide investors with additional insight, and they're presented for supplemental purposes only and should not be considered in isolation from GAAP results.

Reconciliations to the nearest GAAP measures are included in the appendix to this presentation and in the press release and Form 8-K furnished to the SEC. On the next slide, I'm pleased to introduce today's presenters: Frank Holmes, Executive Chairman; Aydin Kilic, President and CEO; and Darcy Daubaras, Chief Financial Officer.

I'd now like to hand the presentation over to Mr. Frank Holmes for a macro recap of the quarter.

Frank?

Thank you. Let's do a quick macro recap of what's been affecting stock markets and HIVE stock price and valuations over this past recent quarter.

Next, please. Before we jump into those granular details, it's always important to understand the DNA of volatility, and every asset class has its own DNA of volatility.

This is to highlight that for especially we find so many people like to trade HIVE, it's because of that volatility. It is a non-event over one day to go up or down 6%, and over 10 days 23%.

You can see that's a little more than CoreWeave, it's substantially three times more than what Bitcoin is and four times more what NVIDIA is when we look over six over 60 trading days. It is just the factor of these macro forces pulling with these announcements from what Bitcoin is doing on a daily basis to the announcements of our AI build-out.

When we have a strong Bitcoin day and good AI sentiment, the stock has these big surges. Vice versa, a negative day in the world of AI and Bitcoin down, and you get these downdrafts.

These appear to be the factors driving a lot of sentiment. The leadership team has been appeared before, Aydin, CEO, the best operator in I'll walk you through why in the data center business, and Craig Tavares, our superstar sovereign builder, incredible builder of data centers, build out our vision in Canada, in particular, which is the fastest track that we have.

The government's committed to it with having a minister for AI. Darcy Daubaras, our CFO; Gabriel Ibghy in Europe; and Gabriel Lamas is in Paraguay; and Johanna Thornblad is also in Europe.

HIVE operates over nine time zones in five languages, and we're able to manage that complexity and still be one of the most efficient Bitcoin miners. Our HPC AI data centers that we have functioning today in downtown Montreal, Stockholm, in Manitoba and British Columbia, our efficiency is always ranked by third party is just top of the stock.

HIVE has always used green energy: Canada, Sweden, Paraguay. Low electricity costs, low temperature, fast internet connection.

What we've been doing is to accelerate the AI build-out is to lay dark fiber in New Brunswick in Canada, and dark fiber is next to be laid in Paraguay. We've been able to demonstrate on this ability to convert electrons and export what they call compute power 5,000 miles away.

That's pretty impressive, and so we're pretty excited about what the opportunities down the road is from Paraguay. I want to thank all the shareholders.

You can see Invesco, Citadel Advisors, Millennium Management, Two Sigma Investments, Charles Schwab. Charles Schwab is probably the biggest in the retail component from registered investment advisors and the retail public.

Thank you all for listening to the call, for being shareholders. For the quarter ended June 30th, you can see that HIVE outperformed its 50-day moving average.

It had a big sell-off along with the whole industry in July. It was one of the biggest outpouring in the month of July by hedge funds.

A lot has to do, which I'll mention later on, with the carry trade of Japan and the significance of this domino effect, a contagion. Japan wanting their money back because rates are going up, and it impacted first the Korean South stock market, which was one of the best performers last year, up about 100%.

It had a huge correction as, in particular, technology and AI-related stocks sold off out of South Korea, and we saw that domino effect impact in America, and we saw a lot of AI, anything related, also being deleveraged. I think that that sort of worst is behind us, and these sentiment factors, they swing back and forth.

What investors have to realize is this carry trade of Japan is quite significant. In my years as a money manager, I've seen the swings back and forth globally of what it's done.

It appears that the worst is behind us right now out of the Japanese economy. We're happy to see that HIVE outperformed Bitcoin at the end of June when you look over that time period this year, and I think a big part is much of our AI strategy and announcing the growth in the revenue from a million a month to $3 million a month and now expanding that will be going to 5 to 6 to $10 $10 million a month with these contracts that we're building.

We have machines that have increased this year to date substantially over the year the daily cash flow coming from our GPU chips, in particular the suite of NVIDIA chips we have. I mentioned earlier the Japan carry trade unwind is a macro risk.

I think the worst is behind us, but any rising rates in Japan will have a big impact. We've seen the administration come in to support Japan's currency even though rates were rising, and it appears to be sort of an aftermath of COVID that after three decades inflation started showing up in Japan and rates started rising.

They went for three decades of basically at majority of the time issuing zero cost of capital, 10 basis points. Funds would borrow in Korea, in U.S., Canada, England, and get U.S.

rates from 4% up to dividend-paying stocks and speculative stocks. That was starting to unwind as Japan started seeing the rates rise and they want their money back.

This is a real important phenomenon for investors just to be able to follow the Japan carry trade because it can impact you. You don't realize why the stocks are up or down during the day.

There's no news, and it could be an unwind or reloading around the world. It's been exciting in respect that last year we substantially increased our hashing power in Paraguay, in particular, taking overall complex from 6 exahash to 25.

That gives economies of scale, and that gave us the ability to deal with the drop in Bitcoin pricing and the difficulty rising. Those are two real significant headwinds, especially in February of this year we hit.

We've been able to make money every month even though and I can share with you had we not strapped on that additional power, it would be very difficult to be operating a Bitcoin operation today. We have this key scalability at 2% and been redeploying our Bitcoin into expanding our AI gigafactory vision.

Aydin is going to give you, and Darcy, our CFO, and Aydin Kilic, our CEO, is going to give you more granularity on these numbers. Underneath the hood, underneath all these non-cash charges such as the depreciation that we have to take for our chips, and particular the non-cash charges on Sweden, which we will have more discussion on as we go on this ongoing battle with the Swedish Tax Agency, which changed the rules from when we initially went there, the interpretation.

The laws haven't changed. It is their interpretation because they're very anti-crypto industry.

Even though we try to explain that we are exporters of electrons, we take hydroelectricity, run them through an ASIC chip, and we export that hashing power, compute power to Foundry, which is a pool in the U.S. which is SOC 1 and 2 compliant, and they pay us our Bitcoin in Bermuda.

It's an export industry, and what's really exciting is that Paraguay's central bank gets that, and it's important now for them in calculating what the GDP is and the contribution to their GDP of how we use a chip. An AI business is very similar, and that is you take the electrons, you run from the hydroelectricity of hydro, they go through your GPU chips, and you can transmit that GPU power, the hashing compute power to New York City.

We demonstrated that in a test 5,000 miles. Now, you cannot send electricity on transmission lines 5,000 miles, but you can convert them into compute power and send along fiber-optics cables along the bottom of the ocean 5,000 miles, and someone can create models at New York City at Columbia University, which has basically validated that exercise.

When you look at a Bitcoin mining industry or you're looking at an AI gigafactory, what investors have to realize is that you don't have an ATM, you don't have a Bitcoin machine that spits out Bitcoin. No, you really export out to a pool that's Bitcoin mining or to an end user wants your compute power, and you can transmit that.

This is phenomenal because you can take all this abundance of electricity in Paraguay and you can turn on an export by converting those electrons into compute power, and it can be used all over the world. It's very exciting what we already doing on that, but it doesn't stop still this ongoing saga in battling with Sweden.

We believe that, based on law and our expert witnesses, we will go through this process, and we believe that justice will prevail. What's important for you is to recognize underneath the hood is that the revenue quarter grew 10%, net operating income grew by 86% because the beginning of this year, February was a very big challenging month.

The year-over-year, it goes to show the significance of the scaling. I mentioned at the very beginning taking revenue is year-over-year grew by 73% even though Bitcoin fell by 40% and operating net income grew by 50%.

We're really thrilled of our positioning of having 2% of that global network and continue to build out that dual engine. In particular, this year is our HPC, high-performance compute, strategy to build AI gigafactories.

Craig Tavares will give you more granularity as we go on, but who's really going to really carry that ball for you today is going to be Aydin Kilic. The team is very, very proud of closing another $130 million of exchangeable notes, zero cost of capital for interest payments.

That money is not earmarked for Sweden. That money is earmarked for the fastest path to cash flow and revenue, in particular in our partnership with Bell Canada.

The countries that win the AI race won't just produce the smartest engineers, they'll build the infrastructure to support them. Data centers are becoming as essential to economic growth as railroads were a century ago.

A quote I've been saying in speeches. One of the things that in our gigafactory being the biggest in Canada, I think what's really interesting is that it's really not taught in school in Canada to the degree, but I grew up there as a child, and Toronto was very proud of their medical breakthroughs and research.

Inspired me in part of my journey of education was to going into medical school before I pivoted to go into business and economics because I was just so in love with what was taking place in Toronto and Waterloo and then University of Western Ontario where the founding school is called Huron University, I sit on the board of. I was always thrilled to know in 1921 insulin was discovered in Toronto.

Pablum was developed in Toronto. The pacemaker and it was pioneered.

Polio vaccine and scaling it was in 1955 when I was born was done in Toronto. The first successful double-lung transplant, cystic fibrosis gene.

I can go on, but it has rich with intellectual capital with two major schools, the University of Toronto and Waterloo University, which is like Canada's MIT. There are many other schools all around, like the Schulich School is famous for business in Toronto, but there's many scientific research laboratories in that area.

Toronto is the financial capital of the country. Ottawa is like Washington, D.C., is the political capital of the federal government, but the universities are really in that greater Toronto area.

We're in a campaign to try to educate investors in Canada as well as in the U.S. about the University Health Network, SickKids Hospital.

One of my friends is a doctor here, a pediatrician, and his internship was in Toronto at SickKids, the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, the Vector Institute, where the Nobel Prize winner two years ago Geoffrey Hinton was at the University of Toronto. This use of artificial intelligence to improve cancer diagnosis, drug discovery, medical imaging, it's very, very big.

What they do not have are these big gigafactories, AI gigafactories, and that is where HIVE's BUZZ is buzzing with activity to build out. Other things is to understand and appreciate Toronto more outside of the Maple Leafs or the Raptors basketball and the Blue Jays baseball.

The telephone innovation was not too far from the city of Toronto, the electron microscope in 1938, NTGGC 41 deep learning 2006, Ethereum next please was discovered by a student out of Waterloo University. What's also important this visual is to show you the triangle of concentration of internet nodes and, in particular, for AI and transferring of data.

The big concentration is from the Toronto region up to Boston and down to Virginia. This is a visual to show you where Lake Ontario is, and Finger Lakes, as you see, is New York, and University of Toronto and the gigafactory is right in between Waterloo University and University of Toronto.

The University of Toronto is much closer to where Toronto is than this map, but it gives you an idea that this is an important intellectual capital, just like I've mentioned before that you look at bio research, 50% of bio research is done in Boston, San Diego. If you look at other types of gaming, there's clusters of software coders that show up.

When you look at cybersecurity, one of the biggest clusters is right here in San Antonio, Texas, with the UT University, which has the biggest cybersecurity school in the country with 10,000 students. Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, went to Waterloo, aka as they call the MIT of Toronto because of the software amount of number of geniuses that come out of that school.

This is to give you an idea from a macro point of view which has happened this year is that semiconductors have had a big run, and they've started coming off with the correction, as you can see here in July. A lot of this had to do with the contagion from Japan to Korea to North America to Europe, and it looks like that worst is behind us now.

What's important when I hear, 'Oh, it's a bubble, it's the worst ever, it's a bubble,' and then all these people are coming out with PhDs of bubbology. I share with you that it's far from that.

The amount of these collateral minerals: you need lithium batteries, not just for cars, but you need them for all these data centers. You can see the drive for lithium and graphite and nickel and zinc and copper.

Copper is making an all-time high because a gigawatt of electricity, converting that to an AI gigafactory like Abilene, Texas, is going to consume 50,000 tons of copper. Most people think of pounds of copper.

No, 50,000 tons, and that's 2,000 pounds per ton. That's a significant amount.

When we look around the world, it means that the supply is limited and it continues to have big demand globally. That's another sort of demand that I see that's going to continue with building out of AI centers.

There's lots of political headwinds as election years, it becomes on the agenda, but it's not going to stop this build-out. This is just looking at spending for you, and you've seen this in other visuals, but it's just important to recognize the peripheral equipment for computers, those stocks have been on a tear.

It's not just here in America, it's a global phenomenon that anyone's involved in the building, construction of these data centers. I'm thrilled I mentioned earlier Bitcoin, in particular Central Bank of Paraguay recognized that Tier 1 data centers are big contribution to the GDP because it's a way for the country to export, besides food and beef, they're able to export electrons, and they export them with compute power.

It's significant contributing income to the country for its size. I'm very pleased that the central bank has had the ability to really grasp the significance of this being an export industry.

Hopefully other countries will all of a sudden recognize that, like Sweden and Canada, Norway, and Iceland, that it's important component of converting hydroelectricity or any other type of electricity with GPU chips to be able to export that compute power. Just a visual for you to grasp: you cannot transmit electricity from Paraguay to New York, but you can send AI compute power.

Those GPU chips is what we do, and we've shown it, we've demonstrated, and that is a big breakthrough. We think this is very significant what we've been able to demonstrate, and after we lay all the dark fiber necessary in Paraguay like we're doing in New Brunswick on the border of Maine, I think that the ability to move those electrons into compute power will even accelerate.

That's the team: 300 megawatts building out in Paraguay and expanding another 100 megawatts. This will give you more granularity of other things we're looking at.

We are looking in Texas. Paraguay substation being built.

Boden, the land that we've end up purchasing in a separate entity as we repurpose the land and power in Sweden, and then the gigafactory that's taking place in Canada, in particular in New Brunswick, and then this joint venture with Bell Canada rapidly expanding in British Columbia. We are coast-to-coast and the biggest technically hyperscaler in Canada.

That's the building, beautiful data center that we bought in Northern Sweden with the land and the long-term power contracts. We have very strong footprint in the community.

There's the HIVE Hockey Arena in which we sponsor 12 kids learning how to play hockey. This is the visual for what we expect to see over the next couple of years in Toronto for the AI gigafactory.

This is really quite phenomenal that Aydin will give you more granularity about the relationships that Craig has been able to build and accelerate with other key groups and entities. I think it's really important to see that a couple of years ago it was predominantly the relationship that we had with NVIDIA, and Aydin and myself had been and purchased a lot of NVIDIA chips.

What we've seen with Craig taking that ball and running with it is really accelerated these other relationships and in the thrust to be in these other countries to have sovereign data centers. This is just to give you an idea.

We're traveling all over the world all the time, meeting with captains of industries like Michael Dell several times, President Peña, Jensen Huang. We are meeting with very important people that have visions.

President Peña has an incredible vision for the country. You can see Gabriel Lamas was arm on President Peña's shoulder.

The big vision is to make that the biggest AI destiny center for gigafactories in Latin America. It's great to be with young executives like Santiago Peña, the President of Paraguay, that has this phenomenal vision.

We hope to be fast-tracking that process and growing with this country. I turn it over to Aydin, and as Aydin throwing a touchdown pass to Craig Tavares, which I just mentioned.

Aydin Kilic is our electrical engineer. He's our CEO, was originally our president and chief operating officer, and saw the building and construction of New Brunswick and helped dramatically build out the Paraguay for HIVE.

I think it's important you listen to him give you the story, and also been very much involved in Wall Street in raising capital for this growth we have for our gigafactories. There you go, Aydin.

Thank you, Frank, for the excellent strategic overview. Now let's get into an executive summary of the quarter to date, our recent accomplishments, and some exciting things in the pipeline.

Starting here, financial highlights for the quarter period end June 30th: $79 million of revenue, $24 million of gross operating margin, and $15.2 million of earnings from operations, which is revenue less cost of goods sold less corporate G&A. We do have a $143 million net loss, which is really driven by two non-cash items.

This is depreciation of about $54 million and this roughly $85 million provision for tax liability in Sweden. This is actually a long-standing issue that we've previously disclosed over the last two years, going back as far as 2023, related to the Bitcoin mining business in Sweden and VAT tax treatments for ASIC imports in the Bitcoin mining business.

We are appealing it, we are contesting it, we do not plan to pay, and that is why it's a non-cash charge on the financials. There's further disclosure in our earnings press release, but I really want to focus on the operations of the business.

We did make $15 million this quarter on a non-cash basis, or if you interpret through adjusted EBITDA, $13.4 million. Of course, the depreciation, look, we have a very aggressive two-year depreciation cycle for those ASICs.

That means over eight quarters, ASICs will get depreciated to zero. Guess what?

We imported about a quarter billion dollars of Bitcoin mining equipment, the containers and ASICs, to Paraguay last year. That depreciation is still hitting us quarter over quarter, and we have four-year depreciation for the GPUs.

Of course, as we have GPUs from the past and and bring online more, that's really where that non-cash number comes from. Quarter over quarter and year over year, I'm very pleased.

It was a strong quarter. Growth 10% in revenue quarter over quarter, 74% growth year over year, again driven by the expansion in Paraguay.

Moreover, if you look at the earnings from operations, again that figure $15.2 million, that's up 86% quarter over quarter. Again, last quarter, Jan, Feb, March, we saw the downturn.

In February, mining economics were the lowest they've been, but we navigated that. With the business generating $8 million on a cash basis this quarter, April, May, June, that number almost doubled to $15.2 million, and year over year that number is up about 50%.

Again, having a lean and mean corporate G&A, we've made a lot of strategic hires to scale the HPC business, but we really want to focus, does the business fundamentally on a cash basis make money? What is your revenue?

What are your direct operating costs or your COGS? Of course, your corporate G&A.

You can find this nicely summarized on the page 20 of the MD&A, but here it is graphically represented. This is a breakdown of the Bitcoin mining versus HPC revenue.

Currently our HPC revenue is represented by the GPU Cloud revenue, $7.1 million for the quarter, represents about 10% of the total revenue this quarter, and $72 million is Bitcoin mining, about 90%. I want to point a couple of things up.

The last four quarters, the previous four quarters, we were doing roughly $5 million a quarter. We're at that $20 million ARR figure.

In May, that B200 cluster went online in Bell Canada's Winnipeg facility, and that got us to $7 million of actual revenue for the quarter. You're seeing that growth, and that number is going to continue to grow, and we're going to explore why.

Just looking at the quarterly analysis, Bitcoin mining revenue grew 7% quarter over quarter, 77% year over year, again having Paraguay fully at scale, and of course as I mentioned, HPC is growing. If you look at that $7 million realized for the quarter of HPC revenue, that's about $28 million ARR if you annualize it.

Let's go to the next slide. That means like Q2, we exit the quarter at $28 million ARR.

We're actually doing $35 million ARR today because we're about $97,000 daily HPC revenue. Here's the big news, everybody.

We have hit a massive milestone. I'm so excited to share, our team's done a tremendous job, and we are at $180 million of contracted revenue because we just announced a new five-year deal which has $70 million ARR to our HPC business unit, and this is new news.

This is brand new. We just announced it this morning.

This is in addition to the Cohere deal, which we announced a few months ago. You now have $180 million of combined active and contracted revenue.

We're very excited. This is a five-year contract that we just announced.

These are GB300s. 2,088 GB300s going to go to the Bell Merritt facility.

These will be delivered and deployed in Q4. It is a five-year contract for $350 million total contract value, therefore $70 million ARR.

Super excited. We funded the acquisition of these GPUs using proceeds from our June convert, where we did the $130 million convert, a 0% coupon.

Lenovo is our partner for the OEM on these GPUs, and this gets us to that that sweet, sweet $180 million number. By the way, we're still targeting $200 million ARR for the GPU Cloud business before we still have more GPUs to bring online in the pipeline.

We're we're at critical mass now, reaching seven minutes. Very exciting.

Of course, this will go into the Bell Merritt facility, which will be closed-loop, liquid-cooled, ultra-low PUE. I was actually just there that last week on a site tour.

The facility is looking phenomenal. That Merritt facility will house both the Cohere cluster of GB200s and this new GB300 cluster.

This is with an investment-grade global technology giant that we signed this deal with. That's fantastic, and they're actually putting a 10% down deposit of total contract value, about $35 million.

That's very exciting. If you zoom out and look at the total contract value now of the cluster deals we've signed, we're at $600 million of GPU Cloud TCV signed this year, this year.

The BUZZ team has done a tremendous job: Craig Tavares, Mark Polk, Mario Sergi. They've all been doing a phenomenal job.

Gabriel Ibghy, really the whole executive team, him, of course Darcy, everybody has been working around the clock to make this a a reality. Of course, it's it all really started with with Frank's vision when we ordered those NVIDIA GPUs back in 2021 to pivot from Ethereum mining to HPC Cloud.

To see here today that we've got $600 million in total contract value signed really this year, and where our market cap is about $800 million, you see how attractive we are. I think that the stock should be due to rerate with with this fantastic news.

These are long-term contracts. We told the Street when we were doing our converts to fund this growth that we were going to focus on long-term three- to five-year contracts, which is exactly what we've done: the Cohere contract, three-year, $225 million TCV, and this new GB300 contract with the global tech giant, investment-grade, is a five-year deal.

Very exciting stuff. Of course, that was a snapshot, a picture there of one of our actual clusters.

This is a snapshot of the two convert deals we did this quarter in April and in June. Collectively almost a quarter billion dollars, 0% coupon debt, five-year bonds.

We did purchase a capped call for each to minimize dilution. The capped call conversion premium, $4.92 for the April bond, and then $8.53 for the June bond.

Those capped calls very attractive as you minimize dilution, and of course having that 0% coupon interest. We are delivering on our promises.

The proceeds from these notes were to go towards the acquisition of these GPUs, which by the way, the GPUs we still finance. We put a a healthy down payment down and try to minimize our cost of capital all the way around, and then have financing for for the rest.

Targeting about 20% to 30% down per GPU cluster, and and the balance you you finance. This is just an overview for all the analysts and and enthusiasts out there if you want the granular details of the three deals we have now.

Three deals in Bell AI Fabric data centers in the Winnipeg facility and of course the Merritt facility. Those are going to get delivered and deployed in Q4 of this year, the GB200 cluster for Cohere and the GB300 we just announced.

We talked about that landmark $180 million contracted revenue. Here's the breakdown.

Again, this is a really handy slide if you want to pause on this slide for all the analysts and enthusiasts out there. Shows you that we have the approximately 5,500 GPUs online today doing $35 million ARR, and then the two large clusters coming online in Q4, which brings us to 9,800 GPUs contracted or active, bring us to a $180 million ARR target.

Again, by the way, our year end we're still targeting $200 million by Q4. We still got some more bullets in the chamber, to speak.

For the most part, we've done a tremendous job. It's August, and we're already at $180 million of that $200 million target that we had.

Very proud of the team. It's been a a tremendous quarter, and I think it's going to be an amazing year.

Let's go to the next slide. We also announced an LOI for our Boden site.

This is an HPC colo lease. This is for $45 million ARR.

We announced it in June, 25 megawatts of IT load. I want to pause here and let this sink in.

We are at $180 million of active and contracted revenue today with our GPU Cloud business. If you add this $45 million ARR HPC colo deal, which we will announce the total deal size, how many years, etc., when we announce the definitive, which we hope to announce before the end of September, then it puts us at $225 million ARR of contracted HPC revenue with Cloud and colo.

I think that's really exciting because our target was $200 million for the end of the year, we're blowing past that target ahead of schedule once this deal is announced formally. I just want to put that into context.

Really exciting stuff. Nothing's slowing down.

We just announced this $350 million five-year GPU Cloud deal, the GB300s, and we've already got another bullet in the chamber. Really exciting.

Let's hop to the next slide because I want to underscore the value proposition, the value proposition. If you look at having a diversified sum-of-the-parts valuation, we've still got the Bitcoin mining taking about $750,000 a day of revenue, $275 million ARR today.

We've got the $180 million signed, contracted revenue, including $35 million active. Then, of course, once we bring online that Boden HPC colo deal, what you can look at here is if you look at the multiples that our peers are trading at, in the Cloud, looking at the CoreWeaves, Nebius, Irens of the world, that's about a 5.5x based on two-year forward revenue multiple.

If you look at the HPC colo, your Whats, your Cyphers, your Huts, that's about almost 11x multiple. If you apply those multiples to into a sum of the parts and then sort of have a nominal valuation based on where our peers are, such as Marathon, CleanSpark, that still have large hash rate online, the composite sum is a $2 billion enterprise value.

Again, we're hoping to announce this Boden HPC colo lease before the end of September. I think that there's a lot of real exciting near-term value.

In fact, I think with the announcement again of this GB300 deal, we're due to rerate as as we've actively grown our ARR to that $180 million contracted number. This is the case for a $2 billion enterprise value near-term based on where our peers are trading.

Recap, I know it's a lot going on. We huddle every day over nine time zones where we operate in in three continents, Europe, North America, and South America.

We've got $35 million ARR active today, again that really holding $180 million contracted GPU Cloud revenue ARR. Then that lease, which was announced in June for Boden.

Again, we also announced the gigafactory in May. That was technically in this Q2, just giving you a quarterly recap.

It was a very dynamic quarter, very exciting. Here's a bit of a double click on this Boden data center LOI.

It's 32 megawatts of utility load, which would be 25 megawatts of IT load. We have the fit test complete.

We have a Tier 3 data center builder that actually do some Tier 4 as well. It's very prevalent in the Swedish market.

They've been at it for nine months. This isn't something that just we just picked up last week, guys.

We just announced the LOI, so that's why it's new news. This is a legacy site.

We've been operating here since 2018. This is the GPU super site where HIVE was mining with 130,000 GPUs Ethereum in the Ethereum mining heyday, almost 6% of the network at its peak.

What the catalyst is, the catalyst was that we got approval from the Boden municipality to buy this building because this was a long-term lease with the municipality. They actually owned the building, and we just got approval to buy it.

That was the catalyst that suddenly made it an HPC colocation conversion candidate. That was the big news in June, and here it is by the numbers what it works out to.

That colo rate, by the way, is about 150 bucks a kilowatt a month, a very strong rate, comparable to some primary U.S. markets that we've seen our peers sign data center deals for for colo throughout the U.S.

Very exciting now. Once we announce the definitive deal, we'll have the total contract value, we'll have the length of the lease, but right now on an indicative basis, you know that it's $45 million ARR HPC colo, and it's with an investment-grade Swedish offtaker as well, a telco company.

We've talked about the gigafactory, the crown jewel of our Canadian assets. We announced this in May, and of course this slide was in our last quarterly update, but here it is again just as a frame of reference.

Expect a lot of news as we advance this site. It's very exciting.

We expect to energize the site end of '27 and have compute come on early 2028. Our dual-engine strategy, we are at approximately $850,000 today, and that comes from $750,000 a day mining Bitcoin.

Got 24 exahash operational, it's actually 25.3 installed. We just optimized with firmware and downclocked some machines.

Again, we are in bear market economics, how do you maximize your profits? That's running off about $275 million ARR.

Then on of course BUZZ with HPC is about $97,000. You add that up, it's about $850 grand a day of total revenue.

If you look at our COGS and SG&A, it's the total cash cost to run the company globally. Again, I always like to go to page 20 and 21 in the MD&A.

It's got a nice chart. It's my favorite page in the MD&A, which is a long and it's a great document for all the analysts and enthusiasts out there.

If you add our total operating costs, about $63 million for the quarter, it works out to about $690 grand a day. It's that's just a good number I like to have at the tip of my fingers because if we're doing $850 grand of daily revenue on a cash basis and our global operating costs, everything: going to conferences, paying for data centers, electricity, you name it, salaries, everything, it's about $690 grand a day.

That means we're we're printing we're doing about over $150 grand a day of profit. That just gives you a sense of the health of the business.

Again, you have all these non-cash charges and accounting treatments, etc. I'm an engineer.

I just want to know as a businessman fundamentally, are we making money on a cash basis? Yes.

Great. Let's let's look forward.

Once we get to that $180 million contracted and those go live in Q4, once those go live in Q4, it's really easy math. $180 million of GPU Cloud business is about $500,000 a day.

What does that mean? Hash price can vary, but let's just assume mining economics are similar in in, the next 3 to 4 months, which is not far away.

We're in August right now. That would be $750 grand a day on Bitcoin mining and $500,000 a day on HPC, which includes our our GPU Cloud revenue.

That's about 40% of global revenue is what the HPC business is going to constitute, with Bitcoin being 60%. Again, this quarter, it's 10% AI and 90% Bitcoin mining.

Within the next few months, that's going to be 40% on the AI and 60% on Bitcoin mining. Really exciting outlook on the dual-engine strategy.

Zooming out, global power footprint, we have 860 megawatts globally. That includes 440 megawatts active of Tier 1 sites, and of course the additional 420 megawatts, which is 100 megawatts in Iguazu that we're building out, a substation, and of course the gigafactory in the Greater Toronto Area.

What you can see on this slide, to try to make it easy for the viewers, is the sites that we've highlighted in green are sites that we own the land. These are sites that are candidates for conversion to Tier 3.

If you tally that number up, it's about 440 megawatt pipeline between Canada and Sweden for our conversion to a Tier 3, which is very exciting. By the way, there's on top of that Iguazu as well, it's it's very exciting, and I think that if you look at the value proposition and what that looks like on a revenue basis in our two-year vision, let's go to the next slide.

On the left, GPU Cloud; on the right, HPC colo. Again, we are at $180 million contracted today.

We went over that earlier in the presentation. We still have room in Quebec.

Let's put another 500 B300s in. That'll add $20 million ARR.

Our end-of-year target is actually $200 million ARR on the GPU Cloud business, and we're so close to that given that we're at $180 million contracted now. Then on the right-hand side, if you look at the portfolio of sites: the Toronto site, our both of our Boden sites, of course New Brunswick and the gigafactory, on an HPC colo basis, 320 seconds 325 megawatts of critical IT load would generate at prevailing lease rates, $150 megawatt $150 bucks a kilowatt in Boden, $130 in New Brunswick, on and so forth, gigafactory is about $160 bucks a kilowatt.

If you do the math, what that works out to, a composite of some $500 million of HPC colo revenue with these sites being developed over the next two years. On a total basis between AI Cloud and HPC colo, $700 million ARR, and that's very exciting.

Now, by the way, any one of the sites on the right, HPC colo, you could stand up GPUs as well. We have that optionality.

If we did that, those sites on the right would be able to accommodate over 120,000 GPUs. That's very exciting.

Of course, the Boden's already earmarked for HPC colo, but I'm just to give you a flavor, the other sites, New Brunswick, GTA gigafactory, and the Toronto Airport site, we still have that optionality if we want to stand up more Cloud. To keep it simple right now, we've done the research, we've we've had talks with parties that are quite interested in colo at any of these sites, and that number on prevailing market rates, $500 million target ARR plus, of course, the 200 for GPU Cloud, $700 million is the number to take away from this slide.

That's the vision plus, of course, the Bitcoin mining revenue. Now, where will Bitcoin mining be over the next two years?

Of course, depends on hash price, but if it's where it's at today, that puts us collectively at almost a billion dollars in combined revenue. Very exciting as we continue to grow.

We want to see the stock rerate, secure the lowest cost of capital. Convertible, we've seen high-yield bonds being used to finance the construction of data centers.

A lot of our peers have done that, we are exploring that as well. Of course, the convertible bond market, if we did two of those deals this year, has worked out very well for us.

Of course leveraging vendor finance for the GPUs as GPUs are emerging as an asset class. We've got a very methodical and forward-looking strategic cost of capital to plan to realize this growth.

Let's go to the next slide. On a sum of the parts, $5.2 billion is the implied enterprise value if you look at having $200 million of GPU Cloud revenue, $500 million of HPC colo revenue, and again you apply those industry multiples.

This is actually a base case, we're not even using our peer multiples, we're discounting a bit. We're doing 3.5x on Cloud and 8x on colo, and then of course you have the Bitcoin mining business.

Puts us at a $5.2 billion base case, and you can see here how you get to that number doing the sum of the parts. If you actually go to where our peers are trading and you use the same multiples, the mid-range case is actually a $7 billion market cap USD as we scale towards those revenue targets we presented.

It's very exciting, and on the upside case, depending, some peers trade at higher multiples, as high as 8 billion. Really, to be conservative, we say that base case is $5 billion.

Again, these are sites we own. This is power that land and power that's secured or sites that are operational that are conversion candidates to Tier 3, and of course the growth in our GPU Cloud business.

A summary of the land and power, we are advancing on that. We've talked about everything except Paraguay.

We have completed the civil work. We've talked about that all summer.

We just had two 80 MVA transformers installed, and by the way, in June, we announced the proof of concept between New York and Asunción. That is the cherry on top, I would say.

Stay tuned for updates there, but just a little bit of eye candy for everybody. Let's go to the next slide.

Here is one of those 80 MVA transformers that were just delivered and dropped on the site last week. Again, we were doing the civil work.

This is heavy civil infrastructure, guys. We're trenching, there's large concrete pads that go deep underground, etc.

Of course, you've got cables and so forth. This is a 200 megawatt substation in Iguazu that is going to have an additional 130 megawatts of utility load from these two 80 MVA substations, which will allow for 100 megawatts of IT load.

This is just at Iguazu in the backyard of the Itaipu hydro dam. It's a 1.2 gigawatt substation regionally that we feed off of, which directly feeds off the Itaipu dam, which is a 14 gigawatt dam.

Just letting you know a lot of things happening and progressing in the background. Again, we are data center builders and developers and operators, we do everything from substation construction, maintaining substations, of course building the data centers and operating them.

Steady progress on all fronts around the world. Just a just a little bit of context.

Iguazu is very close to São Paulo, and why São Paulo? São Paulo is where the hyperscalers in Latin America are mostly service, there's a data center park in São Paulo, NVIDIA's Latin American headquarters in São Paulo.

São Paulo is kind of the hub for Latin America, but most of the data centers there are 1, 5, or 10 megawatts. This will be, we believe, based on our market research, the largest AI factory in Iguazu with 100 megawatts of critical IT load.

Design development is underway as well. We've completed the basis of design, stay tuned for updates there.

Here's a little bit of a geographic snapshot of how far we how close we are to the region that is currently serving all Latin America. Again, with that proof of concept we did earlier this year, and we're in talks with different groups, there is a lot of international interest in Latin America as, the market emerges.

Let's go to the next slide. Looking at the last 12 months, here you've got the revenue and here you have earnings from operations.

So $330 million of revenue in the last 12 months, I would say that is very impressive, almost a million dollars a day we've done. Again, that's navigating the downturn, in Q calendar Q1 of this year.

It was it for for the entire market, it was tough. We we persevered, we optimized, and on a cash basis, we still made money every quarter.

Again, that earnings from operations is revenue minus cost of goods sold minus corporate SG&A. We have done $80 million of earnings from operations in the last 12 months, which I think is very impressive.

Again, we've seen bull markets and bear markets in the last 12 months. By the way, we're showing five quarters here.

I realize that's just so you can do the year-over-year comp as well, but if you look at the last 12 months, that's what those sums are. Let's actually zoom out and look at how the industry has done.

I think what's overlooked, everyone is so hyper-focused on the next year or two. That's great.

We've got a two-year target of $700 million ARR with $180 million contracted revenue now in GPU Cloud. That's great.

That is great, and I think I think it's about getting this getting the story in front of peers. By the way, we should be Russell 2000 qualified by end of this year.

We, of course, file in U.S. GAAP now.

Principal executive offices are in San Antonio. We're very much aware of the it's important to have a strong presence in the U.S.

capital markets. Let's look at the actual revenue.

We've done amongst this peer group here, and you've got $2 billion and $10 billion companies represented here, we've done more revenue than all of our peer group: $331 million in the last 12 months. Some of our peers have done shot for that, which is interesting.

In some cases, their top-line revenue is actually trending down. We get it, people are focusing on HPC conversion and colo, and we are too.

I think it's important to point to a track record. We stood up 300 megawatts in six months in Paraguay.

We've got 9,800 GPUs now contracted, 5,500 active. We're not only pointing to the growth, but we are actually doing it today.

I think it's very noteworthy to point out a strong track record of accomplishment is a good indicator of future success, at least in our opinion at HIVE. We get it, it's all about megawatts, power, and land.

If you look at what we've got secured in our pipeline and you compare that to our peers, we're at a very healthy 860 megawatts. Of course, you've got the Huts of the world with 2 gigawatts, but outside of them, our our pipeline is in line.

I think it's really just framing this in context for the Street. I think HIVE is an incredibly attractive value proposition now.

We've got some really smart money in our cap table, and we look forward to growth, and our team is working hard around the clock to build value for our shareholders. This is just a a quick crib sheet for you as Bitcoin price fluctuates at 60,000, 70,000, 80,000.

This is just what the mining margin is after electrical costs using an indicative $0.05 OPEX. You could see how hash price varies versus Bitcoin price, etc.

Right now we're sort of in the, 36% range given where Bitcoin is, 36% to 40% margin on that $750 grand daily revenue that we're at right now. Just a handy reference slide.

I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Darcy Daubaras, the longest-standing CFO in the industry since 2018.

Darcy, thank you so much, and the team working tirelessly. It was a super solid quarter.

Over to you.

Thank you, Aydin. I'll take the next few minutes to walk through HIVE's financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2027.

This was a strong quarter from an operating perspective. We delivered significant year-over-year revenue growth, improved our gross operating margin in dollar terms, returned to positive adjusted EBITDA, and substantially strengthened our liquidity position.

At the same time, our reported GAAP net loss was significantly impacted by several non-cash items, most notably a provision associated with the ongoing Swedish tax matter, which I'll discuss in more detail. Before getting into the financial results, I'll briefly highlight our capital structure.

At June 30th, 2026, HIVE had approximately 271 million common shares outstanding, together with approximately 3 million warrants, 2.6 million options, and 16.7 million restricted share units. Our shares continue to trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ under the symbol HIVE, as well as on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under HIVE.CO.

Turning to our first-quarter financial highlights, there are several numbers I want to emphasize. HIVE generated $79.1 million of revenue, compared with $45.6 million in the same quarter last year.

Bitcoin mining remained our largest contributor, generating $72.1 million of revenue, while our HPC and AI business contributed approximately $7 million. Importantly, our gross operating margin increased to $24.2 million, compared with $15.8 million in the prior-year quarter.

We also generated positive adjusted EBITDA of $13.4 million. Our reported EBITDA was negative $86.3 million, and our GAAP net loss was $142.9 million.

However, there is an important distinction between the operating performance of the business and the reported GAAP loss this quarter. The net loss included an $84.7 million non-cash provision related to regulatory liabilities associated with our ongoing Swedish VAT dispute.

It also included $53.7 million of depreciation, $7.1 million of share-based compensation, and the impact of fair value adjustments. While those items are appropriately reflected in our U.S.

GAAP financial statements, they are important to consider when evaluating the underlying performance operationally of the business. We ended the quarter holding 190 Bitcoin in treasury.

Stepping back from the individual line items, three numbers really summarize the quarter for me. First, revenue of $79.1 million demonstrates the increased scale of HIVE's operations.

Second, adjusted EBITDA of $13.4 million returns to positive territory after negative adjusted EBITDA in the fourth quarter. Third, we produced approximately 1,004 Bitcoin equivalent during the quarter.

Taken together, these metrics demonstrate the operating leverage we're beginning to see from the investments we've made in our global infrastructure. We continue to balance growth in our core Bitcoin mining operations with the development of our higher-value HPC and AI infrastructure business.

That operating performance is supported by a substantially stronger liquidity position. We finished June with $208 million of cash, compared with approximately $23 million at March 31st.

In addition, we held approximately $11.2 million of digital currencies, $10.9 million of investments, and $18.9 million of receivables and prepaids. Total current assets were approximately $280 million, compared with current liabilities of approximately $143 million.

The increase in cash primarily reflects the financing activity completed during the quarter, including our exchangeable senior note offering and proceeds from our ATM program. These financings have provided HIVE with significant liquidity as we continue investing in our Bitcoin mining infrastructure and increasingly focusing on our HPC and AI growth initiatives.

Our objective remains to maintain financial flexibility while deploying capital into opportunities that we believe can generate attractive long-term returns for shareholders. Turning from the balance sheet back to operations, gross operating margin showed meaningful year-over-year improvement.

We generated $24.2 million during the quarter, compared with $15.8 million in Q1 of last year. That's an increase of approximately 53% year over year.

This is particularly noteworthy given the substantial increase in the scale of our operations during the past year. Our basic loss per share was $0.54, compared with earnings per share of $0.19 in the comparable quarter.

Again, the current quarter loss per share reflects the significant non-cash charges recorded during the quarter, particularly the Swedish regulatory provision and depreciation associated with our expanded infrastructure base. The year-over-year comparison really demonstrates the increased scale of the business.

Revenue increased from $45.6 million to $79.1 million, representing growth of approximately 73%. At the same time, gross operating margin increased from $15.8 million to $24.2 million, an increase of approximately 53%.

As a percentage of revenue, gross operating margin was 31%, compared with 35% in the prior-year period. While the percentage margin moderated somewhat, the absolute dollars of gross operating margin increased significantly as we expanded the scale of the business.

This is an important measure for us because it demonstrates our ability to generate positive operating contributions from a substantially larger revenue base. Sequentially, the trend is also encouraging.

Revenue increased from $71.8 million in the fourth quarter to $79.1 million in Q1, an increase of approximately 10%. More importantly, gross operating margin increased from $17.5 million to $24.2 million, or approximately 38% quarter over quarter.

Gross operating margin as a percentage of revenue improved from 24% to 31%. Sequentially, we saw improvement in revenue, operating margin dollars, and the margin percentage.

That combination is a positive indicator of the underlying operating performance of the business as we entered fiscal 2027. From an earnings perspective, it's important to distinguish between our underlying operating results and the impact of several significant non-cash items.

Adjusted EBITDA was $13.4 million, compared with $44.6 million in the same quarter last year. The year-over-year decline reflects a number of factors, including the changing economics of Bitcoin mining and the increased operating cost base associated with our expanded global infrastructure.

Our reported U.S. GAAP result moved from net income of $35 million in the prior-year quarter to a net loss of $142.9 million this quarter.

Again, the most important point when interpreting that result is the magnitude of the non-cash items. The quarter included the $84.7 million regulatory provision associated with the Swedish VAT matter, together with $53.7 million of depreciation, as well as share-based compensation and fair value adjustments.

The Swedish provision reflects our accounting assessment following the adverse Court of Appeal adjustments. We continue to pursue the available legal avenues in Sweden.

Accordingly, we believe adjusted EBITDA provides investors with an additional perspective on the underlying operating performance of the business alongside our U.S. GAAP results.

Finally, looking at earnings sequentially provides another useful perspective on the quarter. Adjusted EBITDA improved significantly.

We moved from negative $9 million of adjusted EBITDA in Q4 to positive $13.4 million in Q1, an improvement of more than $22 million. That improvement is consistent with the stronger revenue and gross operating margin performance we discussed on the previous slides.

Our U.S. GAAP net loss increased from $76.3 million in Q4 to $142.9 million this quarter.

Again, the comparison is heavily affected by the $84.6 million non-cash Swedish regulatory provision recorded in Q1. For that reason, we believe it's important to look at both the U.S.

GAAP results and the operating metrics when assessing the quarter. Overall, we entered fiscal 2027 with a larger revenue base, improving sequential operating margins, positive adjusted EBITDA, and a substantially strengthened liquidity position.

That financial position provides us with flexibility as we continue executing on both sides of HIVE's strategy: operating our existing Bitcoin mining business efficiently while investing in the growth of our HPC and AI infrastructure platform. With that, I'll turn the presentation back over to Nathan.

Thank you, Darcy. That concludes the presentation portion of today's call.

We will now begin the question-and-answer portion of our call. Analysts on the line, if you can please click raise hand when you're ready with your questions, we will begin to choose and ask you to unmute.

Our first question comes from the line of Joe Vafi from Canaccord. Joe, feel free to unmute.

Proceed with your question.

Hey guys, good morning. Great progress in the business, especially this new cloud deal with the investment-grade tenant.

Maybe we could double-click on that. I know it's a five-year deal.

Could we get some perhaps initial thoughts on if you run some IRRs on the GPU investment, what kind of returns potentially you're getting there? Maybe some additional thoughts on CapEx here to fund the build-out.

I know you've got a deposit, I know you've done some of your convert deals, just kind of what the rest of the financing stack might look like here. I have a quick follow-up.

Thanks.

Hey, Joe. This is Aydin.

Great question, thanks for tuning in, and it was good to see you last week at the conference in Boston. Having that five-year term locked in, we've put in the press release CapEx is about $185 million for the GPU cluster, of course the InfiniBand and so forth, really just to have NVIDIA reference architecture design for the 2,016 GPUs.

If you kind of do the math, indicatively model, of course it'll be delivered and deployed in Q4, we're expecting EBITDA to land in the 75% to 80% range. If you do the math, you're paying off the GPUs completely in about three years, and the balance of that two-year term is free cash flow.

You effectively bake in a 1.6x return roughly speaking on the GPUs, and then you own them outright after the term. Now we've also financed the GPUs, we're putting a portion down, about 20% down for the cost of the GPUs.

We can provide subsequent market updates with the financing terms. Really, the inaugural release was to let the Street know that we've now hit that $180 million ARR target, well on our way to the 200 million target end of year, and to show the Street that we're delivering and deploying the promises from our converts in April and June to use that capital as down payments to lock in these GPUs.

The financing actually doesn't kick in towards when the GPUs ship, and so as we get closer to the deployment dates, etc., but POs are secured for the GPUs, and that means they go into production, which is so critical, and that's really what locks in. Having the capital from our converts, the 245 million collectively that we raised, allows us to have those POs accepted, hardware going into production, and then of course you've got a shipping date, which is important and critical for the offtakers, for the clients, they have assurance.

By the way, the data center is ready. I was actually just at the Bell Merritt facility two weeks ago doing a diligence visit with one of the lenders, and I'm going again tomorrow for another trip.

Things are really moving forward, and yeah, I hope that covered your questions. Great

deal. Sounds like it's well on its way.

Then down in Paraguay, I know there's a lot of things the substations are going in for that additional build, the benchmark testing's been done. What should we be looking for down there as kind of the next step in the evolution of that power portfolio?

Thanks a lot.

I would say the next thing to look forward to is just updates as we work through the basis of design. I'm actually planning to go to Paraguay at the end of September.

I've got a trip to New York planned third week of September, and then I'll actually stop in São Paulo. I plan to visit NVIDIA down there and then go straight to Asunción, do a site tour.

We're engaged with a design-build firm that's built a lot of data centers in the region, we're working through a basis of design. I think as we work through that process, we'll be providing updates just the same way that we put a photo of the substation being deployed last week.

We'll keep the Street updated with progress as we work towards that. That substation we expect to be energized towards the end of this calendar year in parallel, of course, working through that basis of design.

That's all I'm going to say for now. I think what really we like to let people know, as a multinational company, we have progress in different jurisdictions, and a lot of the growth, like the revenue growth, is happening in Canada this year with the deployment of these GPU clusters.

Of course, we'll work on the conversion of the Toronto Airport site, the New Brunswick site as well. I was actually just in New Brunswick last week after Boston.

I flew to New Brunswick to Fredericton to meet provincial government, NB Power as well, to talk about our vision there to make the New Brunswick site in Grand Falls the largest AI token factory in the Maritimes, which I think will be of national significance. Of course, that complements the gigafactory in Ontario in the Greater Toronto Area.

I would say stay tuned for updates coming out of Canada as we advance the conversion of those data centers. Then of course, the big Boden site, I would say that's actually furthest along because we had that LOI signed with an offtaker as well.

The next step there is really watch out for the definitive agreement to be announced, and then that plays into the growth of our ARR targets as well, which was highlighted in my section. I would say keep your eyes peeled for updates on Big Boden, Canada, and then Paraguay is just the icing on top, and we'll update the market, but focus on Sweden and Canada for now.

Understood. Great work.

Thank you, Joe.

Thank you, Joe.

We'll keep the Q&A moving. Next to Chris Brendler from Rosenblatt.

Hey, thanks, Nathan. Good morning, folks.

Congrats on the results. Nice to see the progress and tough market for Bitcoin, but you guys are executing pretty well.

My first question is on the high-performance compute business given all the progress there. I was hoping you could give us a little color on what you are targeting for a gross margin.

In the Q, it looked like it was 44% this past quarter. As these contracts ramp up, I think they'll become less impacted by the service fees and potentially go a lot higher than 44%.

Any thoughts on the target gross margin for the HPC business after signing these contracts? Thanks.

That's an insightful question, Chris. Our fleet right now, we've got about $20 million of our $35 million active revenue coming from Hopper-series GPUs, a combined total of 844 H200s and H100s, and then the balance is about 4,200 A-series cards.

The A-series cards are legacy, they've been running on Cloud since 2023, which is a testament to their fortitude, but as older-generation cards, those rent out for $0.40 a GPU hour. Now, keep in mind, an A40 only uses 400 watts, it's still doing almost $1 a kilowatt-hour, but still, of course, as we bring on GB200s, GB300s, these are more profit dense per watt, and also, of course, with scale, you get economies of scale.

Those two factors: newer-generation GPUs coming online at scale, both are indicative drivers for that margin to go up. Again, as we've built the business, of course, you need to have the foundation in place to scale.

Some of that cost basis is somewhat fixed, and of course, as the scale grows, on a relative basis, that fixed costs diminishes. Hence you can expect margins to improve substantially.

Great. Thanks, Aydin.

That's good color. My second follow-up question is open jump ball for Frank or Aydin is, the Bitcoin mining business actually doing pretty well.

You've gained hash rate share, the gross margins there also improved sequentially despite pretty tough environment for Bitcoin. We've seen hash price stabilize, network hash rate is also come down from the peaks.

Just wondering how you feel the Bitcoin mining is at this point and any updated sort of big-picture thoughts on Bitcoin. I've been a long-term believer myself and just sort of waiting for the next cycle.

Is that kind of the way you guys are thinking about it as well, or are we in a new paradigm for Bitcoin? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks.

We see hash price sort of stabilize around the $31 per petahash per day level. We saw lows as low as $28, $27, which was not long-lived, but for a week or two, and we'd see difficulty adjust.

It seems that the floor, the prevailing floor of this bear market is just about $30 hash price. What does that mean?

In our case, in Paraguay, we've got I think last time I checked, about 19.5 exahash because we've optimized with firmware, and we've had earlier in this year recent S21 Pro orders go down and replace some of the BUZZ miners. We're actually at 19.5 exahash in Paraguay.

That's new-generation gear that on a blended average is below 15 joules per terahash. We've got a large amount of new-generation hash rate.

Of course, Paraguay's got very attractive power costs, too. That just forms part of that cash flow engine and dual-engine strategy.

I think that it's anyone's guess, of course, with CLARITY Act, if that gets pushed through in September, that could be a catalyst. I think the Street's really looking for a catalyst for what's going to be the next breakout for Bitcoin price.

But 100% of our growth is in HPC and AI. Again, we have new-generation gear in Paraguay that's performing phenomenally well, very, very close to 100% uptime.

The hydro infrastructure we deployed has worked very well for the climate there. We've made some modifications to it.

It's there, it's performing, it's doing exactly what we expected, and it's throwing off cash flow as we focus on growing the rest of the business. I think that we'll see.

Bitcoin always tends to come around. Is it going to stick with the cyclical four-year cycle?

Will the CLARITY Act cause a big breakout? We'll see.

We'll see.

Great. Thanks again, and congrats on the results.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chris. For our next analyst question, we'll pass the mic to Mike Grondahl from Northland.

Mike, the floor is yours.

Hey guys, thank you. Two questions.

One, Aydin, is there anything significant left to get the definitive agreement with Boden, or do you just need a little bit of time there? Then secondly, could you just talk a little bit about demand trends and pricing trends on both the GPU and the colocation side?

Thank you.

The lease for Big Boden, that process has been advancing. What I can say is that I alluded to in my presentation was a lot of our peers are using corporate bonds, either investment-grade or high-yield bonds, to finance the construction of these data centers.

We see that as an attractive path to raise capital. Moreover, when you enter in talks with two lenders on that accord, you want to carefully, carefully structure that lease so that the terms are favorable and you could at least strive towards an IG-grade bond instead of a high-yield bond, and so really just to lower your cost of capital.

It's an active process whereby we are, I would say, refining. I don't want to give the Street obviously an exact date, but we're well on our way, the process has been well underway, and it's really just fine-tuning those nuances in the agreement.

Yes, we do have a draft that's gone back and forth, and so just stay tuned. I'd love to give this feed an update sometime in September on that definitive agreement.

In terms of demand, I alluded to in previous presentations, we had a B200 cluster on a two-year contract, the first one we deployed in Canada in the Winnipeg, 504 GPUs, and we rented those at $2.90 an hour. I think 6 to 9 months before, Iren did a big deployment of B200s at $2.20, at $2.20 an hour.

What that tells you is that there's increasing demand in the market. I think CoreWeave came out last week and said they had 20 GPUs from 2020 that they booked out to 2029.

By the way, no one was really doing GPU Cloud in 2020, they would have been mining Ethereum. We know the CoreWeave guys well, and these were Ethereum miners, and so our A40s, we ordered those in 2021, and the margins may not be as fat, but they're still cash flowing, those things.

I think the demand is great. I think that you've got frontier labs that are always going to want the latest and greatest hardware from NVIDIA, and then you're going to have other labs, other AI natives that are more than happy with second-generation gear, and then people that are just using it for inference that just want the lowest cost per token.

They're happy to use GPUs from early Hoppers and Ampere generation. We've seen demand very strong, and even in our current deployments, we have a lot of stuff we're working at, and trying to be mindful of my words here, but we're seeing tremendous demand for new potential deployments of GPUs beyond what we forecast in the earnings presentation today.

We're not stopping at $200 million ARR when we hit that number for GPU Cloud. We see the demand taking us well past that number, very far past that number.

We just wanted to give the Street some very realistic targets that we were going to hit and blow past. We're seeing tremendous demand.

I would say that if we were to bring online another cluster of 2,000 GPUs, we have numerous parties, some that we have existing agency with, that would happily rent that out on a three-year, four- or longer contract. Tremendous demand, and so we're very bullish right now just based on the quality of the offtakers, the economic terms.

In some cases, we're seeing dollar per GPU price even higher than what we've seen previously. It's definitely rising tides environment, which is great for us and our peers in the sector.

Yeah. Hey, thank you, guys.

Thank you, Mike. Time for a few final questions here.

Next, we'll go to the line of Bill Papanastasiou from Chardan. Bill, the floor is yours.

Good morning. Thanks for taking my questions and congrats on the deal announced this morning.

Aydin, the team has landed a number of attractive deals standing up GPU clusters. Maybe you can walk us through how management is thinking about when colocation opportunities compared to these GPU clusters given the power portfolio?

Thank you.

It's a great question, Bill. What we forecast is we've got a target of 10,500 GPUs that we plan to stand up, and that is with our partnership with Bell Canada AI Fabric, and of course we got the Merritt, British Columbia facility, and then the Winnipeg facility, and then our existing sites in Quebec and Sweden.

After that, we still have a pipeline of about 400 megawatts in Canada between New Brunswick, the Toronto Airport site, and the gigafactory site. That's about 400 megawatts of utility load.

If you look at that, I could tell you right now that the gigafactory can do 100,000 GPUs, liquid-cooled, GB300-spec type of GPUs, and New Brunswick would be able to do 20,000. It's 50 megawatts of IT load.

One of those clusters of 2,000 GPUs is roughly 5 megawatts, just for all the analysts, it's helpful taking notes, etc. You could do the math, and you can say, okay, so that's 120,000 GPUs.

Now, we could phase New Brunswick, and we have a two-phase design for New Brunswick now. We have a very long stretch, a very long pipeline, and we did cite that in our press release that we have runway for over 120,000 GPUs for the sites that we own.

I think that it's looking at what is the value proposition. If you do the math on a dollar per megawatt basis, pick an indicative number, say $150 a kilowatt a month for HPC colo.

What that works out to, if you do the math, 1,000 kilowatts, 12 months, is $1.8 million a year of recurring revenue for HPC colo. You see our peers are trading at roughly 10x that multiple.

If you look at it on an enterprise value basis, it's $18 million per megawatt of enterprise value. Cloud, on the other hand, you do $14 million per megawatt per month.

Cluster here, we just announced $70 million ARR, 5 megawatts, $14 million ARR. Depending on the multiples right now, it used to be 5x, I think it's trending closer to about 3.5x, 3.5 x 14, you're well upwards of $50 million enterprise or about $50 million enterprise value per megawatt.

If you're in a megawatt-constrained environment, you can get maximum profit density and, based on multiples, enterprise value by going GPU Cloud. That being said, the Street is also clearly rewarding people that are signing long-term fixed agreements because they're looking at the total contract value.

If you sign a 15-year offtake agreement, the TCV on that, we've seen some of our peers sign deals that is almost $9 million for 300 megawatts. We could take a similar approach for the gigafactory, and that's why we sort of represent it as such.

We give a base case, hey, $360 million ARR if gigafactory was HPC colo, if you did a 15-year on that, it's a $5 billion contract. We will evaluate what we think is the best opportunity and bring those to light.

We're very much aware of the economics, and it's not like we're done looking for land and power as well. We're constantly on the hunt.

I think that it's going to be a really exciting year, but I think that it's a lot more challenging, and it requires more CapEx, but we've got the pedigree to do the GPU Cloud business. I was at the AMD keynote that Lisa Su gave, but Craig and I flew down to San Francisco a few weeks ago.

When you're actually there in the ecosystem at the industry conferences and you're seeing the amount of demand, the big players that are coming online that are lining up for the next generation of GPUs, it is very remarkable. I think that the GPU Cloud business remains very, very, very interesting.

I think the capabilities that it'll unlock in the industry will continue to drive demand.

Appreciate the color. Thanks for answering my question.

Thank you, Bill. Next question from the line of Brett Knoblauch from Cantor.

Brett, the floor is yours.

Hi guys, thank you for taking my question. On the GTA site, at what point do you guys have to make a decision to start to break ground and build the data center for that to be kind of ready for service in 2028?

Then do you need to kind of decide whether that's going to go Cloud or colo when you break ground? Or how you would fund the build-out of that, maybe pre-signing a tenant?

Just any thoughts on GTA and timing. Thank you.

We will provide the Street updates on that project. We've got our basis of design, and so I think as you work through the process, we'll have more, I think, collateral.

Again, there was so much excitement when we announced it in May. It's just really announced that we secured the land and power, and we've got the process well underway from design and permitting.

I'd really just stay tuned, Brett, for more updates on that. Then in terms of Cloud versus colo, it kind of goes back to the last question I answered where if you just use a nominal prevailing market rate for HPC colo, that site would be over $360 million ARR.

That site, our design right now is three phases of 80 megawatts of critical IT load in our basis of design. When you phase that, we could have a government tenant in there doing colo, we could have a hyperscaler.

We could maybe have three or four different clients, and that's not to say we can have a section of it as GPU Cloud. I think that as we advance along that project, there might be a component of it that we've come to purchase of some long-lead items using, perhaps we did another financing down the road.

Right now, it's we've got the other more near-term projects that we're going to be bringing to market. I think I don't want to prematurely speak on what financing strategy we'll take.

Obviously, corporate bonds are very attractive. Typically, you're going to want to have a signed offtake agreement for that before you go to market to get a corporate bond.

Again, just the jurisdiction of that site, the amount of reverse inquiry and demand that we've seen, even in our partnership with Bell Canada, a lot of their enterprise clients, etc., FedGov, there's a lot of demand. We see really just finding the right mix of offtakers, be it HPC or Cloud, and it's kind of when you're raising capital, you get that lead order, and then it all kind of follows from there.

It's a three-phase design if that helps. We expect the site to be energized end of '27 with compute live in early '28.

Awesome. Thank you, Aydin.

Really appreciate it, and congrats on the results.

Thanks. Thank you.

Excellent. Thank you, Brett.

Have time for two more total questions. Let's hear one from Mike Colonnese from H.C.

Wainwright. Mike, the floor is yours.

Hi, good morning, guys. Thanks for taking my question, and congrats on all the progress on the HPC AI deployments.

Great to see. My question is really on CapEx in the second half of the year and timing to funding.

Obviously, you guys have two large GPU clusters that are set to come online over the next couple quarters. You're doing some design work at a few of your owned and operated data center facilities.

What are you guys estimating for the total CapEx lift through the second half here? Then expected timing to secure the funding required to pay down some of these chips?

Aydin, I think you mentioned the goal is to pay 20% to 30% of the purchase price and then look for funding for the rest, if I heard that correctly. Any additional color on CapEx would be helpful.

The scale in the near term, getting to our end-of-year target to $200 million ARR on the GPU Cloud is through our partnership with Bell Canada. The AI Fabric facilities are colo.

The virtue of that partnership, just to recap for everybody, we are co-locating as a tenant in the Bell AI Fabric data centers. There's one in Merritt, BC, and one in Winnipeg.

They've given us a very attractive colo rate below market. The other virtue of that partnership is that their enterprise customers who are looking for sovereign AI compute, well, BUZZ is the exclusive partner on that accord.

We're building and deploying the GPU clusters in their facilities. We've seen, for example, Cohere come in as a client and tenant through that partnership.

That was tremendous. Now, what were the other benefits?

It's CapEx light. Being that it's colo, we didn't have to shoulder the CapEx to bring this compute online.

We think, and it's evidenced by the relative valuation slide, there's a lot of upside very near term when you look at where we would be with the Big Boden lease signed and now that we've got our two big GPU contracts announced, as we promised the Street, that was our mandate in April and June. What I'm getting at is I think there's room for the stock to rerate.

As the stock rerates, then you can kind of look at whether we use equity for financing some long-lead items for some of these data centers. Again, we've seen the corporate bond strategy, investment-grade bonds of course being the method of choice to finance the construction of the data center conversions that we have in the pipeline.

Really, when you say, well, how much CapEx do you need to get through to your end-of-year target of $200 million ARR, as we put in this press release, a cluster, the NVIDIA reference architecture worked out to about $185 million. If you're putting, say, 20% down on that, it's just under 40 million bucks.

Then the rest you get GPU vendor financing with a blue chip lender. You're targeting single-digit lease-to-own.

What I could say is directionally, usually the terms of these GPU finance is less than the term of the contract. Again, the actual GPU finance kicks in before the GPUs deliver because typically there's a big payment associated with that.

We'll kind of provide the Street more updates on IRR, etc., the closer we get to the deployment date. Really, yeah, the CapEx is just what I described.

It's the down payment requirement roughly, I'm giving you indicative figures here, it's the down payment requirement on the GPU cluster. There's nominal deposits related to the Bell AI Fabric colo, single-digit millions, which were paid up a long time ago.

That's what's really exciting. I think that the CapEx to convert the small Toronto site is about 40 million to bring that to a HPC Tier 3 liquid-cooled, and that would be able to stand up another 2,000 GPUs or do colo.

We've had reverse inquiries on that site just based on where its jurisdiction is. That one's only a 7 megawatt utility load, 5 megawatts of IT load, but again, just based on its location, it's very attractive.

That's kind of the near-term stuff. I think we put in the deck that it's a $200 million CapEx for the Big Boden conversion to get to 25 megawatts of critical IT load.

Again, we've got that LOI signed, definitive in the wings. Those are sort of, I would say, the most near-term CapEx figures for you if that's helpful, Mike.

Did I answer the questions?

Yes, Aydin. Great color.

Appreciate that.

You bet. Thanks,

Mike. Final question this morning comes from the line of Stephen Glagola from KBW.

Stephen?

Hey, thank you for the question, and congrats on all the cloud progress. For the 84.7 million Swedish tax liability, can you help us understand the likely timing of any cash payment there, and what avenues remain available to mitigate or defer that obligation, and how management intends to fund that liability if it becomes due?

Thank you.

Hi Stephen. We don't plan on funding that liability is the takeaway.

We addressed it in the press release. I'll refer you to that as well as Darcy's section.

In our opinion, the treatment of taxes is uneven. They gave Northern Data a hard time, too.

This is not exclusive to us, it's just how the STA was such a huge fan of Bitcoin mining. We've paid $50 million of tax already from our normal course of operations, and we have advisors in the country, and we've looked at other remedies in terms of appealing and contesting and even going a step above to the European Union.

Again, that commentary is detailed in the press release. I would refer you to that, but really, we do not think that that's a good use of shareholder capital to pay down this, in my opinion, egregious tax claim, and we've paid all the tax in the normal course of business.

Again, this is related to VAT on ASICs. Sort of a fossil, a relic from the past if you will, that had long been contended for, really goes back to 2023.

It's always been there, it's been in our disclosures for the last couple years. We haven't paid it, we don't plan to pay it, and it's just something that we're going to continue to appeal.

That's really it.

Thank you.

You bet.

Thank you, Stephen. Thank you to all of our analysts.

That concludes our Q&A session and our Q1 fiscal 2027 earnings call. Thank you to all of our shareholders and the investment community for joining.

Look forward to speaking to you again soon.