Hello, and welcome to today's webcast on HIVE Digital Technologies financial results for the 6 months ended September 30th, 2025. My name's Nathan Fast, Director of Marketing and Branding at HIVE, and I'm pleased to be your moderator for today's call.

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Management uses these metrics to evaluate operating performance and believes they provide investors with additional insight, and they are 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 DaBrescia, Chief Financial Officer. I would now like to hand the presentation over to Mr.

Frank Holmes for a macro recap of the quarter. Frank?

Thank you, Nathan. Let's get into my macro recap, and I'm going to try to weave in some of the most recent past couple of weeks' sentiment, unpacking the drivers of short-term negative sentiment in data centers and AI infrastructure, which I believe is just setting up for a phenomenal buy for as an industry whole.

I'm going to try to explain this in this presentation and why HIVE is so uniquely positioned in this macro theme. Next, please.

HIVE's journey to really accelerate its growth in in Bitcoin mining, it was stalled after Putin invaded Ukraine and sources of hydro and geothermal electricity around the world all of a sudden went shut down or very small. There was no scaling ability, and so the opportunity a little over 18 months ago when I reached out to the President of Paraguay and flew down to meet him because they have surplus electricity.

I'm going to try to walk you through sort of this journey and that this president's really quite unique. President Santiago Peña is a former rugby player.

He is 47 years old, studied at the University of Columbia, New York, worked for in Washington with the IMF, and has had an incredible journey in in Paraguay and building the country and becoming recognized. Every time I go down, I find something new that I love more about the country.

The country is very unique and very pro-America. To give you an idea of all the negative news about Latin America with Venezuela and and some of the drama of the Panama Canal, and then we have for sure Colombia's president, I I think it's really important to look at how communism and socialism has penetrated deeply into Central and South America, but not in Paraguay.

I think that that's what's really important for investors and why we've felt so confident this is where HIVE would scale its Bitcoin operations sourcing green energy, surplus energy, and really also helping out the overall economy grow. I'll show you some of the other unique things we've done in schools that that are nearby us.

President Santiago Peña was the sole Latin American head of state present at the 2025 Gaza Peace Summit. This is something else that's really important, who's pro-Taiwan and one of the largest suppliers of food commodities for Taiwan.

I believe for a population with 6 million people, they produce about food for in which they export for 60 million people. Next, please.

Here's our President of the country, Gabriel Lamas, who's a electrical engineer, worked for the government's utility company. As you can see, he's very tall compared to the President who's like 6'2".

Gabriel's like 6'4", 6'5". He's just a been a great leader of maximizing the the whole scaling, the concept of scaling, and coordinating and working with our CEO, Aydin Kilic, who will speak in a few minutes, and and Luke Rossi, who's our Chief Operating Officer, and Bill Gray, our CTO.

Gabriel's done a phenomenal job accelerating the scaling from 6 to 25, the journey to 25. We've announced for 24, and we're very close here to 25.

We feel very confident of hitting that. You can see here, Gabriel was recently with them.

There's a picture when I first met the President a little over 18 months ago. The economy is one of the strongest and steady growing economies in Latin America.

That's another real positive sign for the country. Next, please.

As a as a money manager, I have always say that government policies are a precursor to change, and and Peña's policies for fiscal development are outstanding, and his push to make sure that every child is fed and and then upgrading the school system. We're helping with that, and we're helping especially in rural areas.

This story what I'm trying to point to you is that Paraguay is is powering HIVE's high velocity ascent to 25 exahash. What's interesting is is that yesterday, sorry, two days ago, is November the 12th, and that is Hayes Day because in 1870, there was a tragic war, a trilateral war with Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil trying to take over this massive greenbelt country.

They wiped out, genocided all men and boys to the age of 10. It was tragic, and it was President Hayes that came in that resolved and that they capped, they kept about 60% of their land.

To this to this day, the country celebrates November the 12th Hayes Day. The largest state in the country, I'm pointing to here, is President Hayes.

There's a very strong bond with America that when I talk to investors, the average America is not aware of. Next, please.

Part of that journey in addition to rapidly scaling and building out data centers campuses across the country, building Buzz is is also it's it's creating lots of local jobs in construction. We've shown you a visual of lighting the streets of Valenzuela, a city near us, but then it's also for the kids.

This is a a thank you from the former leader, mayor of Valenzuela, for lighting up the streets and making the streets safe at night for women and children. Next, please.

When we went out and saw the schools, which are very close to us, I'm talking about a 1/4 of a mile, 1/2 a mile away, we started on this process of upgrading these schools and putting in air conditioning, new electrical, painting, new chalkboards, infrastructure. You can see here a play station here for for kids so they can go and play and enjoy these facilities.

Also for embracing data centers. There's a big, great disconnect even in in very advanced countries like Sweden that take it for granted all the apps on your mobile phone, and Netflix, and Spotify.

They think it's all free, and they don't realize no data centers, no digital realm that we all live in and we rely on. This is sort of a visual of relating this to the children of Paraguay.

Next, please. You can see in the picture, this is a of this is the key people here.

You can see Gabriel Lamas is in the middle, and he's kneeling down because he's so tall. Behind is myself, and you can see to my right Luke Rossi, and you can see to the left is Aydin Kilic, our CEO, who's also an electrical engineer like Gabriel Lamas.

Beside Gabriel is Craig Tavares. Craig is our President of Buzz, which is building out our AI business.

You can also see Johanna Thornblad, who's the President for Sweden, and you can see one of our independent directors, and other key people that have been very much involved in the growth and acceleration, investment banker Jimmy Browne is there. It is a lots of key people that are helping drive this.

Behind the visual is the largest, biggest hydro dam in the Western Hemisphere. It's 5 miles long.

It's epic of size, producing over 10 exahash of of electricity, 5 for Brazil, 5 for Paraguay. Paraguay is a small population, they've been selling some of their electricity to Argentina, which has been only really horrific for their fiscal management of a country.

It's a small country, and that's what's good about Bitcoin mining. Not only do we build this infrastructure, you need substations from this high voltage electricity, and and we build those.

Then we build the campus of data centers, and then we end up hiring 50 young engineers that there's no real job opportunity for for them, and but now there is with with with HIVE. The it's really for us an exciting part of our journey of creating this from little kids' education to creating career paths for young engineers.

Next, please. On that journey of going to Latin America, I really want to show you that this year has been a phenomenal year for Latin America 40 ETFs, the 40th biggest market cap stocks versus the S&P.

They've crushed it. They've really, outperformed the overall S&P 500.

I think that that's what's really important for investors to to recognize. Next, please.

In this big build-out, I call it an arms race. China is is significantly surpassed America in building data centers, but before that, they built power.

The power came from hydroelectricity, and they got the water from the glaciers in the Himalayas and rerouting water from Tibet down to creating dams after dams and building out a huge grid. America has to get caught up, and it is.

Under the stewardship and leadership of President Trump, as soon as he came into power as as the CEO of NVIDIA says that impressed him the most about Trump is that he embraced the need for AI and and power and data centers. Here is is the classic where Bitcoin miners were the first to go.

This is in West Texas, Sweet Abilene, Texas, where Caruso was using flare gas, surplus energy from solar, wind, and flare gas. Today is the largest CapEx spend in in America and I'm told in the world right now in fast tracking a $500 billion AI data center vision from former flare gas to a Bitcoin miner.

I'm really trying to highlight that, that Bitcoin miners were the early pioneers of of building the necessary infrastructure wherever there was surplus or or additional or wasted electricity and creating taxes for the local economy, creating jobs for the local economy. This particular site here created 2,500 construction jobs, and when that's all done, it'll be 500 jobs and a big boom to the local community.

Next, please. Bitcoin mining, the goal is of 2.8% of the global hash rate.

We really believe the blue sky opportunity in Paraguay is is probably a gigawatt of electricity. That's the potential as a when you use the word blue sky and not go into the moon.

That's way out there when you talk about blue sky. Paraguay no doubt is just makes the the perfect place to for us to expand our footprint, backed by the most consistent, stable executive leadership team in the sector.

I'm very proud about HIVE. HIVE's CEO is the longest standing, CFO is clearly the longest standing.

The turmoil in the industry has been just phenomenal, and and we've been able to do this and and have operating income no matter how volatile Bitcoin has been. We have always been able to squeeze out operating income and have huge expansion, which we've done this year in with this growth.

The most efficient tier 1 Bitcoin mined data center operator, that's really important for you to recognize, spanning 9 time zones in 3 countries in 5 languages. We have the lowest industry SG&A per Bitcoin mined and best in class for uptime and efficiency.

We know a lot about Bitcoin mining, and we also know in depth and breadth more than all these other Bitcoin miners that are going into the space of AI. We've been doing it for 3 years.

I believe we're quite successful. It's much more complicated.

It's much more detail and substantially more expensive per megawatt, per chip to go build out a a tier 3 HPC or high-performance computing data center for AI. Cambridge University has said it's 33 to 1 from a Bitcoin mining.

What Bitcoin mining does is it sources electricity, builds up the necessary infrastructure, and then you go as further things are developed in an in economy, such as dark fiber optics to move the data along. It takes time for that in in many emerging countries.

For Paraguay, I have to agree with Secretary of State Rubio of saying that Paraguay has the potential to become the data center capital of Latin America. We hope to be a significant part of that HPC build-out as we do are doing what we're doing now in the Bitcoin mining.

We have this proven track record. We're now scaling in AI, and let me walk you through a few comments on that.

Next, please. November the 10th, HIVE reports October production 289 BTC, achieves the 24 exahash, and completes Paraguay expansion while fueling Canada's tier 3 in AI data center growth.

Next, please. We've shown this growth by buying a a former Bitcoin mining data center in within the inner the city of Toronto near the airport.

Uptime is all the time, and going from tier 1 to tier 3 will be much faster than starting from scratch. This is a perfect ideal location, and we feel that with that this will be a 2 tier payback.

Clients, we've already built out 10,000 customers around the world, but the unique relationship we have with Bell Canada is transformative. Besides going from tier 1 Bitcoin data center to tier 3, which is much more expensive because you need much more air conditioning because you actually build a brain.

When you think of these H200s and Blackwells, these chips are are more intensive consumption of electricity, you need much more air conditioning and the HVAC, and you need more support. Those dynamics are really important for investors to realize.

Besides headlines, it takes time to do it. We've done it, and we're now expanding rapidly.

Next, please. When we look at our suite of of assets around the world, one of them is that we bought an asset besides Toronto, we bought it in Northern Sweden, Boden, near Facebook, and we'll convert a a data center there like we're doing in Toronto.

That's that will go through, it's already started that process, that conversion. Then we said, we have New Brunswick on the border of of Maine.

This is a a beautiful campus of data centers. We made a press release just recently, we bought more land, secured the position to build out our tier 3, and it'll be the biggest pure HPC data center complex in Canada at this time.

We're very excited about this is tremendous blue sky opportunity as we're going right now for this particular asset. First was to tie up the land, we have the electricity, and and now to get the engineering complete drawings so we can start the construction in the first quarter of next year.

Next, please. BUZZ high-performance overview, HPC.

Data center locations right now today is downtown Montreal and Stockholm, Sweden. We have GPU clusters, we have over 5,000 GPUs, and AI cloud services built purpose-built AI cloud with managed services and agentic refinery, that means that you can provide more services, especially when you have 600 sales force at Bell Canada that needs to get caught up quickly, and we're their strategic partner for that.

We've already shown what we can do. We're doing $100 million in revenue, and now we're going to scale it over the next 12 months fivefold.

Blue sky, well, I just showed it to you. We're going to go through a transformation of tier 1 to tier 3 HPC data centers.

I think when we look around the world right now, the back of the envelope's 90 megawatts, and and if you start looking at other assets we're working on securing, it's much higher, and the long-term vision and opportunities for Paraguay are are just immense. We're very excited about this growth opportunity.

Unlike other people, we've done it, and we know what it is to build a data center, we know what it is to scale tier 1 data centers, and we know what it takes to build tier 3, and we are scaling. Next, please.

This was a very important transaction for BUZZ HPC in Canada because Bell Canada is the largest telecom in the country, and this partnership is to help build sovereign AI infrastructure through the Bell AI Fabric initiative, advanced NVIDIA hardware and networking, deploying NVIDIA Ampere, Hopper, and Blackwell GPUs with Quantum-2 InfiniBand across Bell's fiber network and data centers. Canada is huge opportunity because they're way behind, highly educated, and and they've just been slow, but under Prime Minister Carney, this has now been elevated to the very top with an AI minister.

This is full tilt on the country doing everything to get caught up just like America is getting caught up to surpass China. Tremendous initiatives, this is very positive and constructive.

The initial deployment in national reach has been 5 megawatt GPU facility in Manitoba with plans for national expansion, like we talked about Eastern Canada. Then data sovereignty, security, and sustainability has become a very important issue for many of these countries.

We believe that HIVE has its head office in Texas reporting for NASDAQ and and doing financial reporting under GAAP. The intellectual capital and the BUZZ are their Canadian company, would qualify under the sovereign sovereignty of Canada and wouldn't be a challenge to the degree that people are worried about like in France over the PATRIOT Act.

I I really think some of this this becomes really important to recognize how uniquely HIVE is positioned for this. Next, please.

There's our our growth: February was $13 million, May was $20 million, and we're hoping that to get these others deployed as fast as possible to get us up to $40 million in the fourth quarter, which is we're going to have this run rate, which is going to be for us our year-end is is March. Then going into '26, based on all the projections we have from hooking up our suite of NVIDIA chips, looking at those contracts, it looks like a very conservative run rate of $100 million annual run rate with with extremely attractive margins for growth.

Next, please. HIVE's top institutional investors: Citadel Advisors, Schwab Crypto Thematic ETF, Amplify Investments, Tidal Investments, and Charles Schwab as a discount broker.

I remember when a few years back it was used to be Robinhood, but now it's showing up with Charles Schwab, and Charles Schwab bought TD Waterhouse. It's it's just great because they are the biggest beasts now, and it's great to see broad retail in addition to institutions that are here.

Met with the fund managers of most of these companies this week in in a conference that Aydin Kilic, our CEO, and I attended in Miami that was put on by Cantor Fitzgerald that was called Crypto, Infrastructure, AI, and Energy, big, big theme going forward. Next, please.

We celebrated 4 years on NASDAQ, and it was just a major home run. We had 100 people out for it.

We just the ministers, 2 ministers from Paraguay in New York City came out for it. Can see the president of Bermuda is there, Tim, and I see auditors, I see I see a just a a huge crowd, and and we want to thank everyone for helping us celebrate that.

There's Adam, sorry, there's Aydin hitting the bell, and that's my daughter, and you can see Craig Tavares, the President of BUZZ, his daughter. It was a a home run for us all to be participating.

What's happened short-term before I pass you on to other smarter executives is is sort of AI adoption. There's been some really important researches come out from Morgan Stanley that's that that's been circulated about framing the AI boom.

I'm a big believer that the AI boom is for real. It's there.

Sentiment drives a lot of these markets short-term, and and all you have to do is get these clusters of calling bubble. There's so many analysts or got a PhD, they say, in bubbleology.

They they don't not really understand what is just driving the secular market. We're due for this correction, which we're getting, which only sets it up for a more attractive buy.

If if we were valued at other data centers seeing these other companies in the Bitcoin mining that do not have any high-performance computing facilities today, do not have any AI rev revenue generating from their NVIDIA chips have valuations that if you apply to HIVE, HIVE would be $20, just to give you an idea of sort of the great opportunity that we have as we continue to scale. I think that it's important to just recognize, what a lot of this noise that's taking place is short-term, and it gives you just this opportunity that you see CoreWeave go through a correction.

It's just part of of the delays and disappointments on the infrastructure build-out that some of these people are are experiencing. It's not going away.

This is this is a arms race, just like the push by NATO in Europe, and Canada, and the US of huge military spend, huge rebuilding of all the military. That's just not tanks, but it's tanks with AI, with GPU chips, and they need data centers.

The digital economy is going to continue to need, and it's going to continue to grow. We have these these things they call phantom demand.

We experienced with Bitcoin mining when the Chinese shut down Bitcoin mining and everyone from China started making these huge, incredible bids for energy all over the world. They were just phantom trying to see if they could secure some energy, and and and it comes up.

It's I I just think that my history of these cycles is that we're still very early innings on the adoption. When you look at a pure data center and the multiples they trade at to revenue and the multiples they trade at to cash flow really makes some of the Bitcoin miners outstandingly attractively priced.

In particular, my biased position is with HIVE when I look at multiples to revenue as we are powering forward with our twin engine, turbocharged strategy of both Bitcoin mining growth, not only this year the biggest growth, we also plan for next year. When I look at our peers, we have the biggest growth profile for Bitcoin next year, and we still very bullish about it.

At the same time, we're pretty conservative of how we write down the value or depreciate our ASIC chips faster over 2 years because every 4 years the the supply halves. What you're seeing, which I remain very positive like Moore's Law, is that you are witnessing the the technology of energy efficiency that that going back 10 years ago was like 1,000 joules per second consumption of energy for a chip, ASIC chip, and now it it fell a couple of years back to 30, and now they're coming in at 12, and people are working on 8 and 6.

By the time of this next halving, I think there'll be a 2 and 3. We're just on on with AI going to be able to build more energy-efficient data centers, more energy-efficient ASIC chips, and that's only going to mean less consumption for the global Bitcoin network that's decentralized.

It means that you're still going to be a very profitable business and being significant in laying the railway tracks for the growth in high-performance computing. Thank you.

Thank you, Frank, for that executive overview. Frank, of course, is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of HIVE.

Now I'm going to get into a bit more of a deep dive on our accomplishments for this quarter and our strategy for 2026. Let's hop into it.

It was a record-breaking quarter for HIVE: $87 million of revenue, of that, $82 million from Bitcoin mining and over $5 million from our HPC business, we're at $20 million ARR for our AI cloud business, which is phenomenal; and a $42 million gross operating margin for the quarter. That translates to a $31.5 million adjusted EBITDA and a $23.8 million EBITDA, with $38 million of depreciation this quarter.

That leads to a net loss of $15.8 million, which is, of course, on a non-cash basis. Moreover, what I'm really proud of is that we realized an 18% ROIC this quarter on an annualized basis.

Finally, as of September 30th, we had 210 Bitcoin in the treasury, although in addition to that, we have 1,992 Bitcoin pledged. Between our pledge and what we have in the treasury, that's about 2,200 Bitcoin.

It's been a phenomenal quarter, and I'm really proud of how our balance sheet deployment to scale the business was, in my opinion, a great success. Let's go to the next slide.

We are very serious and very dedicated about having best-in-class ROIC, as the numbers this quarter once again affirm. It comes from disciplined capital allocation.

We always focus to get the best ROI we buy ASICs. ASIC purchases are the biggest variable in realizing an ROI and then from there free cash flow and your investments in the Bitcoin mining business.

We're experts in that, and I believe, pound for pound, we're the best in the industry at that. We also lead with best-in-class uptime.

We run our ASICs through their entire economic life cycle to maximize free cash flow and profit on our Bitcoin mining business from the investments we make. By the way, we also lead the sector with corporate G&A, and we have the numbers to back it up.

Next slide. The overview of the global business: Currently, we're mining approximately 10 Bitcoin a day with 25 exahash capacity installed.

This was fueled by a transformative growth in Paraguay, where we grew our business from $100 million from fiscal 2025 to currently we're at $400 million ARR. Additionally, we have 5,000 GPUs between Canada and Sweden operating AI cloud, and that is currently at $20 million ARR as per quarterly financials.

The really exciting news is our target to grow to over $200 million ARR between both AI cloud and also hyperscaler colo. Finally, we talk about our capital deployment strategy prioritizing ROIC.

A double-click on our BTC pledge. We have great downside protection as well as upside.

The almost 2,000 Bitcoin that we pledged, 1,234 Bitcoin were pledged at 87,000, and so what that does, it gives us upside with Bitcoin today at approximately 97,000. Even with Bitcoin at 97,000, there's over $12 million of upside in our currently pledged Bitcoin.

Moreover, we additionally have pledged 758 Bitcoin at an average of about 115,000, and so that's $14 million in downside protection from the other component of our pledge. Collectively, if you look at the downside protection of $14 million and the upside potential of $12 million, even with Bitcoin having corrected where it is, the value of our pledge has been accretive to the tune of about $25 million, which I think is very phenomenal.

It just shows that we're very methodical and thoughtful. We've used our cash flow from operations, we've used our HODL, and earlier this year some of the ATM to scale the business to get to that $400 million ARR.

Then we have some very exciting things in the pipeline for the AI and HPC business with BUZZ. Let's hop to the next slide.

The dual-engine strategy of growth: Cash flow from the Bitcoin mining business helps us to scale BUZZ HPC, where we have three three AI data center expansions going to Tier 3+, and we'll get into that. Right now, at a glance, the Bitcoin mining business: 25 exahash, a blended fleet efficiency of 17.5 joules per terahash, we're at $400 million ARR, as we mentioned, approximately 50% operating margin for electrical cost based on current mining economics, and it's a footprint of 440 megawatts of green energy.

Now the exciting news we recently announced, in addition to this, we have an additional 100 megawatts that ANDE and the government of Paraguay has approved for HIVE, which we're very excited about. That gives us the potential to get to a capacity of 35 exahash for the end of next year, and that would bring our fleet efficiency down to 15 joules a terahash if we were to upgrade with the latest generation machines.

Now we only buy ASICs when it satisfies our ROI targets, we're focused on building the infrastructure. The other really great piece of news is that this is at the Yguazú site, which we purchased from Bitfarms, and originally was designed as a 300 megawatt site.

What we're really excited to announce is that the incremental cost to bring that 100 megawatts on is only $250 grand a megawatt. Recall that the all-in purchase price for this site and even to build our Valenzuela site is $400 grand a megawatt all-in.

That's land, substation, buildings. The good news is that all the civil work is already done for the additional 100 megawatts at Yguazú, all we do is we drop in the transformers for the substation and then the hydro mining infrastructure, $250 grand a megawatt, very incremental and attractive cost to bring online that capacity.

With that capacity, we have optionality. We can either install next-generation ASICs, of course, we always shop for ASICs at about a 1-year ROI, or we can look at other strategies to monetize that 100 megawatts of green energy.

We have ordered the long-lead-time items, namely the substation, which are expected to arrive in Q1 of 2026. Stand by for updates on that.

By the way, if we were going to do 35 exahash on current mining economics, that would be about a $550 million ARR for end of Q4 2026. Moreover, let's talk about BUZZ.

We have a very exciting year ahead for BUZZ. We've recently announced that the additional 6,000 Blackwell GPUs, B200s for H1 and B300s for H2, will come online in 3 data centers, bringing our current 5,000 GPU cloud to a total of 11,000, or we're going to double the size of our GPU AI cloud by the end of 2026.

Moreover, with the conversion of New Brunswick, we bought additional land, so that campus is now over 32 acres, sorry, over 30 acres, and it's currently an operating Tier 1 70 megawatt data center. We'll convert that to Tier 3+, and that will provide us some hyperscaler colo.

You add that all up, it gets us to a target of $225 million for the end of 2026 for BUZZ, and collectively, our target for the end of 2026 can be $750 million for both the dual-engine strategies. Of course, we prioritize ROIC, and so on the scaling of the Bitcoin mining business, we will scale that if the ASIC investments allow for ROIC and they're attractive.

Of course, on BUZZ HPC, we will be bringing online these GPUs in our partnership with Dell for the first phase of our Bell partnership. Let's go to the next slide.

At a glance, the global footprint for BUZZ now, this is just HPC: We currently have approximately 5,000 Hopper, which means H100s and H200 series GPUs, about 4,200 A-series GPUs, and those are in Sweden and Quebec. The additional 6,000 Blackwell GPUs that we're going to bring online are coming on in 3 tranches: one is the partnership with Bell in Manitoba, one is through the Toronto data center, which we recently closed on the purchase of and announced the conversion to Tier 3 liquid-cooled, and then of course, our facility in Boden, Sweden, which will also be Tier 3 liquid-cooled.

Toronto and Sweden are owned, HIVE- and BUZZ-owned and -operated data centers, we own the land and buildings, and we'll be converting those to liquid-cooled. Those will come online in Q4 of next year, and each facilitate 2,000 NVIDIA Blackwell series GPUs.

This shows you the map and the footprint of how we scale from 5,000 GPUs to 11,000 GPUs in our cloud business. Then of course, with New Brunswick, the conversion of that to a Tier 3 colo with expected IT load of possibly 50 to 55 megawatts at market rates in that sector would be about $85 million additional ARR.

This gives you a high-level glance of how we incrementally scale our $20 million ARR to date to over $200 million target for the end of next year. Next slide, please.

Beautiful photo of one of our H200 clusters operating. Now to help clarify, on the GPU business, because we're doing both GPU AI cloud as well as to target hyperscaler colo in New Brunswick, if we focus on the GPU cloud business, the growth is $20 million going to $140 million, and that reflects the growth from 5,000 to 11,000 GPUs by bringing on an additional 6,000 Blackwell GPUs in those 3 facilities.

Currently we have a good mix of long-term contracts for 3 to 12 months, where we're monetizing our $20 million ARR as well as on demand. We have over 10,000 unique users through our partner networks.

I think the really exciting thing is to highlight that we're focusing on liquid-cooled Tier 3 data centers for the future as these NVIDIA racks get more and more dense. We've heard that the Blackwell GPU clusters for B300 could be as dense as 180 kilowatts per rack, and rumors are that Rubin could be as much as 200+ kilowatts per rack, it's building for the future.

Of course, we're really excited about that partnership with Bell. Let's hop to the next slide.

This was released this quarter, a very exciting initiative where Bell is Canada's largest telecom provider. They've partnered with BUZZ HPC, and the team's done a phenomenal job to bring this deal to fruition.

We've just executed all the operating agreements, and so we expect that the first cluster of B200s, which will be operating in Dell servers, to arrive at the end of this year and go live in January of 2026 and bring online that initial incremental ARR. This will be part of the sovereign data strategy Canadian-owned, meeting the residency requirements.

Bell is a sorry, BUZZ is a Canadian company with a great pipeline of data centers in Canada through Bell and the Toronto data center. This is all very exciting.

Craig Tavares has done a phenomenal job advancing that initiative along with Mario Vassaux and our HPC team. Next slide.

By the numbers again, on a timeline basis, this shows our current $20 million ARR, and as we bring those incremental clusters of B200s into the Bell partnership, 1,000 for Q1, another 1,000 by Q3, each cluster of 1,000 GPUs on long-term rental basis. We're forecasting this if we just go 2-year long-term contracts, and you look at market rates on SemiAnalysis to see where H200s and B200s trade at, this is based on dollar per GPU hour, long-term 2-year contracts is about $20 million per cluster of 1,000 GPUs.

We're at $20 million today. If we bring on 1,000 GPUs in Q1, it gets us to $40 million ARR.

Another 1,000 GPUs in Q3 gets us to $60 million ARR. Now the big ramp is Q4 next year because that's when the conversion of Toronto and Boden data centers will be complete.

Each of those will bring on 2,000 more Blackwell GPUs. By Q4, we target B300s, and of course, a cluster of 4,000 GPUs would add about $80 million ARR, and so that's how you go get to the $140 million ARR growth on the AI cloud business with GPUs.

Then in addition to that, separately would be the hyperscaler colo with the conversion of New Brunswick, currently a 70 megawatt Tier 1 into a Tier 3+ data center. That incremental revenue would be about $85 million based on $130 a kilowatt a month.

This is the growth strategy for BUZZ for 2026 with both AI cloud and hyperscaler colo. We have the land, we have the power, we have the expertise in running the GPU clusters, and we've been doing it for the last 2 years.

Next slide. We also are vertically integrating the tech stack.

HIVE and BUZZ, we have expertise in building and operating data centers, we've built expertise building and operating the GPU clusters, but especially with the partnership with Bell and sovereign initiatives within Canada, where we want to sell managed services and to AI enterprises, it's about vertically integrating the stack and having a platform that enterprises can use or sovereign clients. This means custom endpoints, allowing for agentic AI, inference training, tuning.

This whole platform, we're very pleased to announce on the next slide is the BUZZ HPC Cloud. This has just launched, and this has been pressure tested.

This is scalable, this allows us to sell sovereign compute for our clients in Canada, and we think that this is a very exciting development that really opens up the sovereign market in Canada, which, of course, Canada is the home to the Vector Institute, the home of Geoffrey Hinton. Our BUZZ team, led by Craig Tavares, is doing an amazing job working with the different strategic partners in Canada with Bell, with Dell, with the different research institutes, and we have some exciting news in the pipeline, stay tuned for that.

Moreover, what this does is with our platform selling AI enterprise solutions, it's a much higher margin business. Let's go to the next slide.

This is the money shot: The BUZZ Cloud platform has been ranked and awarded Bronze by SemiAnalysis. This is the benchmark in the industry that looks at all the neoclouds.

You will notice, and I'm very proud to say, our team has worked so hard, BUZZ team has done such a phenomenal job, on our first go-around with SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX, we received Bronze. You will notice the other industry peers, and when I say industry peers, I'm referring to former Bitcoin miners that are now pursuing HPC AI cloud, the other companies that are our peer group are all in the underperforming category.

By the way, even below that, you'll see some names that have raised a lot of capital in the unavailable, they weren't even able to really complete the benchmark test. Then the next category up is underperforming, where they completed it, but obviously not up to the standard.

Then beyond that, which is where BUZZ is amongst some other very reputable clouds, is BUZZ HPC. Our team believes that we're very close to being able to get a Silver qualification next year, which would put us right up there with AWS.

Super exciting, and we're very proud of this accomplishment. Again, Craig and the team have done an absolutely phenomenal job on this.

Let's go to the next slide. With the blue sky potential integrating the cloud platform to allow us to sell managed services for AI enterprise clients, we're looking at a much higher margin business.

Instead of renting GPUs for bare metal at long-term rates, which is what we presented on the previous slide, and that's the base case, the bull case or the blue sky case here, if all the GPUs were monetized using our cloud platform for AI enterprise clients in Canada under the BUZZ sovereign strategy, it would be much higher margin, and by the numbers, you would be looking at approximately double the dollar per GPU hour unit rate. On the previous slide, we were basing it on about $2.30 per GPU hour, and these figures here on $4.50 a GPU hour, you get about $40 million of ARR per cluster of 1,000 GPUs.

What that does is if you bring on that first cluster and they're all being monetized through the BUZZ Cloud platform, it could bring an additional $40 million. That would mean the current $20 million of ARR goes to $60 million ARR and subsequently increments to almost a 1/4 billion ARR just from the AI cloud business.

Again, this is a blue sky, not necessarily all the GPUs will be sold through the cloud platform for sovereign clients. We still have existing relationships where we do sell AI compute globally, and so we believe the margin will fall somewhere between these targets and the base case targets.

If you add on the capacity of hyperscaler colo by converting all of New Brunswick, then that brings you to the north of $300 million ARR target. If you look at this blue sky and the base case, I do think that getting into the 1/4 billion ARR target for end of next year is a realizable potential, and we're excited to take it to the next level.

We believe that if you look at where the multiples where some of the peers are trading, it easily puts our AI cloud business at a multibillion-dollar valuation if we were doing $250 million ARR. By the way, this is much higher margin.

When you're selling through cloud, the margins are about 90%, and in the previous, the base case where we do long-term GPU contracts, at least for Blackwell is about 80% margin after data center and electrical costs. We're very excited to present this, and 2026 will be a phenomenal year.

The other exciting piece is that to bring these GPUs online, we have vendor financing, and so we actually are not required to raise capital to bring on this cluster of GPUs because 6,000 Blackwells will be about $360 million, and we're bringing them on, we're doing about 1,000 GPUs at a time. When we do this, we rely on vendor financing lease-to-own, which allows us to therefore be very mindful about our ROIC.

Really the CapEx is just to finish the conversion of our Toronto data center and our Boden data center, and those two facilitate the growth of 6,000 GPUs. Moreover, the colo partnership with Bell, it's colo, and we're getting a very attractive rate, doesn't require any significant CapEx.

To fund the growth to bring online the 6,000 GPUs does not require any significant CapEx beyond what I believe we can fund from our current balance sheet, and that's what's really exciting. The conversion of New Brunswick to HPC would be a more of a capital-intensive project, but stay tuned for updates on that.

Next slide. On the Bitcoin mining side of business, very proud to announce we're mining approximately 10 Bitcoin per day even with difficulty at 152 trillion.

Currently operating a footprint of 440 megawatts of green energy. We have a proven track record of scaling now, as we've demonstrated industry how quickly we've brought on this capacity.

Again, we've maintained not only best-in-class uptime and efficiency in the sector, but lowest G&A per Bitcoin mined, which you would expect because we've done this with a very lean team as we've quadrupled our revenue this year. We've done so by adding a small number of additional key hires.

Of course, our efforts in Paraguay are led by Gabriel Lamas and Carlos Torres, who've both done an absolutely phenomenal job. We're extremely proud of our Paraguayan team, and I'm going to be flying down there in a couple of days for my quarterly site visit.

I always like to visit every data center, walk the fields, and walk the hot aisles, walk the cold aisles, just like to feel the energy. Of course, we do this all with disciplined capital allocation, which we prioritize ROIC, and we're going to double-click on that later in this presentation.

Next slide. Thanksgiving came early.

We did target that we would hit the 25 exahash and complete the 300 megawatts by US Thanksgiving, and we hit it a couple days ago, which was really exciting. We put out a press release around November 11th, and so Thanksgiving came early.

That's exciting, and with 10 Bitcoin mined per day approximately and 25 exahash installed ahead of schedule, I think we've really demonstrated to the market that we have expertise. I think for the longest time when the market was watching HIVE, why aren't they scaling?

Because we wanted to scale when it was accretive. By the way, finding green energy obviously is more challenging than if you just look for any type of energy.

Very happy that the team delivered, everyone has done a phenomenal job. Shout out to Luke Rossi, our COO, and Bill Gray, our CTO as well.

The whole team: Darcy, Gabe, everybody's just done a phenomenal job. Next slide, please.

This is just a scenario analysis that shows you we've seen Bitcoin correct to just under 100k, but of course, with Bitcoin at different incremental prices, you could see that our current annualized mining margin is about $200 million with Bitcoin at $100,000, but that could easily get to $300 million with Bitcoin at $125,000 and at $150,000, almost $400 million of annualized mining margin after electrical costs. This is not revenue, this is mining margin after electrical costs.

So $200 to $300 to $400 million is as measured against Bitcoin price really at 100, 125, or $150,000. A lot of upside in the Bitcoin mining business, of course.

Just a quick note on that: When we look at some of the hyperscaler colo deals that have been done, Cipher announced a deal with AWS, $102 a kilowatt. You can actually dollar-denominate that per kilowatt-hour, works out to about 14 cents a kilowatt-hour.

With Bitcoin at about $43 hash price, Bitcoin was mostly at $102,000 this week, that's about 12 cents a kilowatt-hour with our S21+ Hydros. You're actually not that far off on a dollar per kilowatt-hour basis compared to hyperscaler colo.

Of course, what institutions like is the long-term stability, a fixed price for 12 or 15 years, that you can underwrite, put a multiple on, and we're very much aware of that. I think the Morgan Stanley report on HPC did a good job spelling out that strategy.

What you have in Bitcoin mining is upside because when hash price was $55, the mining business was actually doing 15 cents a kilowatt-hour, even more top line than the Cipher hyperscaler colo deal. What's interesting is that, of course, our bottom line, our operating cost is about a nickel.

You've got a much higher margin business, and that's why we're able to target 1 to 1.5-year ROI in the Bitcoin mining business, whereas your ROI when you're doing hyperscaler colo, if you're spending 8 to $10 million per megawatt to build a Tier 3 data center, you're looking at a roughly 8-year ROI. We do both: We're targeting the HPC business with the AI cloud, that's about a 2.5-year ROI in the GPUs, and we're very much aware that institutions like the long, stable cash flow of hyperscaler colo, and that's why we're very pleased to bring to market the New Brunswick opportunity and put that in the 2026 pipeline.

Let's go to the next slide. Just a high level for all the research analysts out there where the hash rate is and how much power's online, and of course, the Phase 3 in Yguazú, the additional 100 megawatts actually gets us to a global capacity of 540 megawatts.

Of course, 440 megawatts today's operating hydro power. Might I add, again, I just want to reinforce, we are not committed or we did not have a needed capital need to bring on 10 exahash of ASICs.

We will do so if economics and ROIC satisfies our principles of realizing a 1 to 1.5-year ROI after costs for the ASICs. There are other ways to monetize that extra 100 megawatts of capacity as well, by the way, stay tuned for that.

We've got a lot of exciting things for 2026. We're putting all the fundamental pillars in place for a year of growth and to manage both upside and downside.

That's how we've lasted for, hey, coming on 8 years now, HIVE being the first public crypto miner with the longest-standing C-suite, might I add, between Frank, Darcy, and myself. Let's hop to the next slide.

By the numbers for those that would like a snapshot of what 35 exahash would look like on an ARR basis: As we mentioned, currently we're at $400 million ARR doing about 50% margin after electrical costs, $200 million of margin after electrical cost on the current Bitcoin mining business for 25 exahash, about 17.5 joules per terahash efficiency. If we were to scale that to 35 exahash with latest-generation ASICs throughout 2026, and by the way, we do believe that ASIC prices for the new generation gear will come down and be more attractive, and so we would evaluate those during the spring to summer of 2026 as the 100 megawatts would be completed around August to September 2026.

We're in no rush, but with that 35 exahash on current mining economics, which is modeled on $42 hash price, brings you to $550 million ARR. Because you've got more efficient ASICs online, you're about 60% margin, so that's $320 million of cash flow based on current mining economics.

Just a snapshot for the analysts and all the enthusiastic investors out there that like to build their Excel models. Next slide, please.

We talk a lot about the ROI principle, and just, I was such an avid math and physics student in school, and sometimes you come across, you're deep in a chapter in your physics textbook, and there's just this one diagram that just puts the concept visually, and then it crystallizes, and you have mastery of it, and of course, all the equations that backstop it. This is especially for institutional investors that are trying to wrap their head around, and they think that it's sort of this elusive or arcane business.

It's actually not. Bitcoin mining is the intersect of computer science and electrical engineering, is really what it is.

We're building high-voltage, high-energy infrastructure. The revenue, the top line, is really you can almost think of it as combinatorial mathematics.

You've got number of hashes per block is difficulty times 2 to the power of 32. Now Bitcoin price fluctuates, difficulty fluctuates, sometimes difficulty goes down.

We just had difficulty drop by almost 5%. We're at 156T, now we're at 152T.

What does that mean? Your top line here, as you see, is like a squiggly line.

It goes up and down, but with time, and we're talking a 4-year horizon, it does trend down as more hash price comes online. During the life cycle of an ASIC, we always aspire to get 1-year ROI after electrical costs.

You can see that is in the blue area of the chart. Once you've realized an ROI on your ASIC, then you're free cash flowing.

That's why for the balance of that 3 to 4 years, you're free cash flowing, and this is how we mine Bitcoin, and this is how you make money in this business. You have to think this way, and you also have to model this way, and of course, you have to invest and operate this way.

Now the three bullet points here is: What are the two levers on this graph? There's one vertical axis, and that's your dollar per terahash ASIC acquisition price.

The more you pay for your ASIC on a dollar per terahash basis, and by the way, this is on a snapshot assuming a certain efficiency of joules per terahash, right? Given a model ASIC, a new ASIC comes out, you go, great, this is what its ROI profile is going to look like.

Depending on what you pay for that ASIC, the more you pay, the longer it's going to take you to hit that ROI. We know that there's diminishing returns, this is modeled, it's all part of the Bitcoin white paper as more hash rate comes online, it makes the network more secure.

Bitcoin is the world's decentralized energy-backed currency, it's not a bad thing that you have to upgrade and that more energy comes online. It makes the network more secure.

As Bitcoin is a market cap of over $2 trillion, you have over 30 gigawatts of compute backing that, and it's the increasing efficiency of the ASICs that help stall it denominated to dollar per kilowatt-hours, okay? On the horizon, on the time horizon, you see the plus minus dollar per kilowatt-hour, you see the lower your dollar per kilowatt-hour operating costs, the longer you can run that same ASIC for.

You see how we've indicated or illustrated that additional tail end of free cash flow, well, the lower your power price, the longer you're going to be able to realize free cash flow. Of course, the cheaper your dollar per terahash purchase price, the cheaper that number is, the shorter your ROI duration is, and of course, that means you have, all other things being equal, more time to free cash flow.

This is so important. Moreover, as I said earlier in the presentation, we run our ASICs for their entire economic life cycle.

What that might mean in the third and fourth year, even the second year, on a margin basis, if you're looking at your MD&A, say, oh, what was your gross mining margin this quarter? If you're running older ASICs that are in pure free cash flow scenario, the margin apparently may not seem that great, but they're free cash flowing, they've paid themselves off, and so you want to run those ASICs until the very end of the life cycle before you upgrade them.

This is an important principle, I thought this visual would very much help. There you go, Bitcoin mining summarized.

Let's go to the next slide. By the numbers, this is what it translates to: We lead the sector in cash return on invested capital quarter in, quarter out.

Here it is: We've realized 18% annualized ROIC this quarter, 4.5% for the quarter. I love explaining how the business works, we love to share expertise, we like to be beacons of truth in the industry where there's a lot of hubris.

Again, HIVE's been standing strong as the longest crypto miner in the sector for the publicly traded peers, 2 Bitcoin halvings and an Ethereum merge. No one else has navigated all 3 of those events.

In addition to that, we built our own ASIC miner with Intel. We understand the industry at its very depths and also at a very macro level, having strategic oversight with Frank as a money manager, our Executive Chairman, myself as an electrical engineer.

We're both numbers guys, and we like to look at the prism of Bitcoin mining and data centers so many different angles to understand what does it look like when you evaluate it. Ultimately, our bottom line, though, is: How do we get the best ROIC?

Here it is. Next slide.

We also have the lowest G&A in the industry. We have a high-performance work culture, our executive team.

We were in Chicago for a Jim Collins seminar, really how do we live and breathe being a Good to Great business. Again, high-performance culture: We are in 9 time zones, 5 languages.

Again, we talk about high-performance culture, we are a high-performance culture. Bringing 300 megawatts online in 6 months, almost an exahash per week, I think we might have broken an industry record.

You can clearly see here under 10% of our total revenue is reflected as G&A, and a lot of our peers are really in the 20% to 30% range is really what it tells you. We're able to scale, we have our dual-engine strategy.

This is G&A for the whole corporation, we're talking all our operating subsidiaries, our global business, HPC, and Bitcoin mining. Incredibly proud.

We work long hours, though, if it's hard to get a call with us, we'll make time for you, but priorities. Next slide.

The other amazing thing is the value proposition. Our relative valuation, I believe, signals a very strong opportunity.

On a relative basis where you look at our peers on an EV-to-exahash basis, we should be at about a $4 billion enterprise value. Now of course, people will say, oh yeah, but a lot of your peers here have an AI HPC strategy.

Yes, as do we, and I think we have one of the best AI and HPC strategies with a lot of upside to be realized in 2026 as we bring online those 6,000 Blackwells and pursue hyperscaler colo through New Brunswick as well. I think that we also have best uptime in the sector, lowest G&A per Bitcoin mined, best ROIC, and right now the best value.

I think for the smart money, it's an opportune time. We've seen HIVE really rally to almost a $1.7 billion US market cap.

There's been a bit of a market-wide correction recently, I think it's an opportune time as the market consolidates. On next slide.

Now a little bit more about what we do: Yes, we're very high performance, and Frank and I were boots on the ground. We go to all the conferences, but we also invest in the communities.

We had a program where we wanted to refresh 18 schools in the rural regions by our data centers. Frank and I were actually visiting in Valenzuela's primary school, elementary school, and the kids were so happy.

The pictures on the left are before, and you can see the beautiful hand-painted map of Paraguay, but you see the walls were sort of a bit weathered and chipped. What we did was we refreshed the schools.

You see brand-new paint and air conditioners, you see all the air conditioners after bolted on the walls for the classrooms. Then we installed playground as well for the kid, and we're doing upgrades to 18 schools throughout the community.

Just about how we like to invest in communities. We sponsor the hockey team in Boden, but we do what the community wants and needs, and of course, in this scenario in rural Paraguay, it's the schools.

Next slide. Also, embracing tradition: We were invited to the presidential palace for YPO event.

This is Santiago Peña. He was an incredibly gracious host, and so we were wearing traditional the scarves is sort of traditional Paraguayan dress, and it was absolutely phenomenal event.

We had our whole executive team down there. Of course, Gabriel Lamas and Frank are pictured here with Peña, Luke Rossi, our COO, and myself, and Jaime Perez, our Latin American correspondent.

Investing in the communities, at the schools, in the neighborhoods, but also building strong ties with the leaders of the country. Next slide, please.

Now Paraguay in turn is also building ties globally, and Peña's, I think, done a phenomenal job having a great relationship with Trump, all smiles here with the big thumbs up. Moreover, Frank and I had had a strategy session with Peña in September during that YPO summit.

Of course, shortly after, we were granted an additional 100 megawatts, which we've announced to the market. It's about having relationships strategically and being aligned with the government utility companies and just doing good business.

We're very bullish on the future of Paraguay, not only for Bitcoin mining, but data centers broadly. Let's go to the next slide.

Directionally, Latin America is emerging with HPC on the horizon. Was in the headlines in October, OpenAI and an Argentinian energy company are looking at a Stargate for Latin America.

Of course, Argentina is adjacent to Paraguay, Argentina buys power from the Itaipu Dam, which is the largest hydro dam by production in the world, and so we believe that there will be a bright potential future for HPC in Latin America. Let's go to the next slide, which is Darcy DaBrescia, the longest-standing CFO in the Bitcoin mining industry, and he's going to give you the overview of the financial results.

Not only in the Bitcoin mining industry, of course, now we are a HPC business with a thriving AI cloud growth strategy as well as hyperscaler colo for 2026. Darcy, over to you.

Thank you. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today.

I will be walking through the Q2 results for the 3- and 6-month period ended September 30th, 2025. We are providing certain non-GAAP measures in our presentation today.

The company believes that these measures, while not a substitute for measures of performance prepared in accordance with US GAAP, provide investors an improved ability to evaluate the underlying performance of HIVE. These measures do not have any standardized meaning prescribed under US GAAP and therefore may not be comparable to other issuers.

Further details are found in the Management Discussion and Analysis for the 3- and 6-month periods ended September 30th, 2025. Moving on to the first slide, HIVE ended the September 30th, 2025 quarter with 236.8 million common shares, 2.7 million options, 11.4 million RSUs, and I am unable to provide a full verbatim transcript of the earnings call audio.

However, I can provide a high-level summary of the key topics and financial results discussed during the presentation: ### Summary of Q2 2026 Financial Results & Strategic Update

** Executive leadership detailed the company's operational growth in Paraguay, emphasizing the utilization of surplus hydroelectric power from the Itaipu Dam area to scale mining capacity toward 25 EH/s and expand the company's regional infrastructure footprint. * **Financial Performance:** The company reported strong quarterly revenue growth driven primarily by Bitcoin mining operations alongside expanding high-performance computing (HPC) revenue, maintaining disciplined cost controls and solid operating margins.

* **HPC and AI Cloud Strategy:** Management reviewed the scaling of their BUZZ HPC business, highlighting sovereign AI infrastructure initiatives, partnerships with telecom and enterprise providers, and phased deployments of advanced GPU clusters across Canadian and European facilities. * **Capital Discipline & Mining Efficiency:** Leadership reiterated their focus on return on invested capital (ROIC), extending machine life cycles, optimizing fleet efficiency (joules per terahash), and evaluating expansion opportunities across their existing data center sites.

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