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HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. runs specialized mining computers that supply computing power to mining pools. The pools use that power to mine Bitcoin and pay HIVE in digital currency for its contribution. This supplies most of HIVE’s revenue; it sells cryptocurrency regularly to help cover operating costs and investment spending.
A smaller business rents graphics processing units (GPUs) to companies for artificial intelligence and other demanding computing tasks. Customers rent through online marketplaces or fixed-term contracts. HIVE is expanding this business primarily through BUZZ HPC, using cash flow and infrastructure from its mining operations.
The mining business depends on Bitcoin prices, how difficult it is to earn rewards as competing miners add computing power, and access to affordable electricity. GPU rental income depends on customer demand and equipment utilization; HIVE does not control customer marketing or engagement on the marketplaces it uses.
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HIVE’s results depend chiefly on Bitcoin prices, network difficulty and cheap electricity, while privately held Bitmain and Micro BT are important suppliers of its specialized mining machines.
CleanSpark and HIVE supply computing power for Bitcoin mining, so Bitcoin prices, network difficulty and machine efficiency shape both companies’ mining profits. Watch CleanSpark’s fleet energy efficiency and uptime to judge the competitive standard HIVE faces when selling computing power to mining pools.
MARA Holdings and HIVE run large Bitcoin-mining fleets, with returns exposed to the same Bitcoin prices, network difficulty and electricity costs; MARA earns newly issued bitcoin and transaction fees, while mining pools pay HIVE for computing power. MARA’s shift toward owning its energy and data-center infrastructure offers a comparison for HIVE’s control over mining costs.
Riot Platforms competes with HIVE for Bitcoin mining rewards and economical electricity, using specialized machines to supply network computing power. Watch Riot’s low-cost power resources in Texas and mining output as a comparison for HIVE’s electricity-heavy mining business.
Bitdeer competes with HIVE in both Bitcoin-mining infrastructure and AI cloud computing sold to customers. Its self-mining revenue and AI cloud business provide separate comparisons for HIVE’s mining-pool income and GPU rentals, rather than a single measure of the two businesses.
Cipher Digital and HIVE receive bitcoin from mining pools for computing power and are extending sites with secured electricity into high-performance computing (HPC). Watch Cipher’s development of facilities for large cloud-company tenants as a comparison for HIVE’s effort to turn mining infrastructure into AI capacity.
Keel Infrastructure Corp. and HIVE sell computing power to Bitcoin mining pools and are developing HPC facilities from sites with electricity access. Keel expects its first data-center revenue in 2027 from long-term leases to cloud providers, AI companies and enterprises, making signed leases and revenue start dates the useful comparison for HIVE’s expansion.
Core Scientific and HIVE both operate digital-asset mining data centers and adapt their power and cooling infrastructure for AI and HPC customers. Core Scientific’s work converting facilities to house customers’ high-density computing equipment is a useful comparison for HIVE’s own mining-to-AI upgrades.
Hut 8 competes with HIVE in specialized Bitcoin-mining computing and AI/HPC, combining sites with electricity access, data-center infrastructure and compute operations. Watch how Hut 8 chooses uses for its powered sites according to customer demand: HIVE also needs land, power and customers for its AI expansion.
IREN competes with HIVE for customers buying AI training and inference computing, with both operating infrastructure backed by renewable power. Watch IREN’s operating AI cloud capacity—not just its power pipeline—to compare how much customer-serving capacity each company brings online.
Argo Blockchain plc and HIVE use specialized Bitcoin-mining machines, so their mining economics respond to the same network difficulty, Bitcoin prices and power costs. Argo earns mining rewards and transaction fees; its access to reliable, low-cost renewable power provides a comparison for HIVE’s mining cost advantage.
HIVE has bought specialized Bitcoin-mining machines from Canaan to generate computing power sold to mining pools, making Canaan a supplier rather than just a mining-sector comparison. Watch Canaan’s industrial AvalonMiner production: HIVE says the small number of large-scale mining-machine makers creates risks to purchase timing and costs.
WhiteFiber, Inc. competes with HIVE for AI developers renting GPU computing for training and inference from Tier-3 data centers. Watch WhiteFiber’s cloud GPU services alongside the hosting business that houses customers’ equipment: owning both layers lets it capture margins at each and avoid some outside-provider expenses.
Bit Digital competes with HIVE through its WhiteFiber business, renting GPU computing to AI developers and operating the supporting HPC data centers. WhiteFiber’s revenue from AI cloud services and customer-equipment hosting is the relevant comparison for HIVE’s GPU rental expansion.
CoreWeave competes with HIVE for customers buying GPU cloud computing for AI training and inference, but also sells a broader software and managed-services platform. Watch its committed contracts with enterprises, AI labs and technology companies as a comparison for the customer demand behind HIVE’s GPU rentals.
TeraWulf competes with HIVE in power-intensive data centers serving AI and HPC customers, but earns through long-term infrastructure leases rather than HIVE’s GPU rentals. Watch delivery of its contracted capacity to large cloud and enterprise customers to compare infrastructure demand with demand for HIVE’s computing services.
Applied Digital competes with HIVE in developing and operating power-intensive AI and HPC data centers, providing capacity to large cloud companies and other computing customers through leases and hosting. Watch its ability to secure economical power and grid connections, which it identifies as the main constraint on new HPC capacity and which HIVE also needs for expansion.
HIVE’s AI cloud rental expansion depends on NVIDIA’s advanced GPUs, including its H200 and B200 clusters, which HIVE rents to computing customers. HIVE attributed $15 million of additional annual recurring contracted revenue to its latest B200 cluster, making deployments and rental contracts for these chips the concrete link to watch.
SharonAI Holdings, Inc. competes with HIVE for customers renting advanced GPUs on demand for AI training, inference and other HPC work. Its H200 and B200 rental offerings are a direct comparison for HIVE’s own clusters and the computing capacity customers can choose instead.
Riot Platforms, Inc. earningsRIOT
Riot Platforms' report will show how its electricity costs compare with its Bitcoin-mining output, a useful test of the cost competition HIVE faces for mining-pool rewards.
Read Riot's reported mining output alongside its electricity costs. Strong output with competitive power costs would suggest Riot can pursue mining rewards at a lower cost, putting more cost pressure on HIVE's mining business. Weaker output or higher costs would point to a less effective rival. Their power sources and mining arrangements differ, so Riot's costs are not HIVE's costs.
SharonAI Holdings, Inc. earningsSHAZ
SharonAI Holdings' report can show whether customers are renting advanced GPUs in the same market where HIVE offers H200 and B200 computing capacity.
Look for SharonAI's GPU-cloud revenue and any disclosed customer use or rentals of GPUs. Growth in both would show customers are paying for advanced GPU computing, supporting demand for HIVE's rentals while also showing more competing capacity. Weakness would suggest demand may be too limited to readily fill HIVE's added GPUs. The companies' GPU models and business scale are not identical.
CoreWeave, Inc. earningsCRWV
CoreWeave's report will show whether enterprises, AI labs and technology companies are committing to GPU-cloud computing, a demand signal for the market HIVE is entering.
Read CoreWeave's disclosed customer commitments alongside GPU-cloud revenue or service delivery, if reported. Strong commitments and revenue would show customers are willing to sign for and pay for GPU computing, supporting demand in HIVE's market. Weakness would suggest demand may not yet support expansion. CoreWeave also sells software and managed services, so its revenue is not directly comparable with HIVE's GPU rentals.
HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. earningsThis company
HIVE earns most of its revenue from Bitcoin mining and is building a GPU-rental business, so this report will show whether HPC is adding meaningful revenue and gross operating margin.
Read mining revenue beside HPC hosting revenue, then compare the gross margin each contributes. If HPC revenue and margin both rise, GPU rentals are adding more than sales: they are contributing after direct cash costs. If growth still comes mainly from mining while HPC revenue or margin stalls, HIVE remains exposed to Bitcoin rewards, prices and power costs, and GPU expansion has not yet changed the revenue mix.
Canaan Inc. earningsCAN
Canaan has supplied Bitcoin-mining machines to HIVE, so its report on industrial AvalonMiner production can signal the supply risk HIVE faces when buying specialized equipment.
Look at Canaan's disclosed AvalonMiner production and deliveries. Steady or rising output and deliveries would suggest better availability of this type of machine, easing HIVE's risk of procurement delays and higher costs. Disruption would sharpen the risk HIVE faces because only a few manufacturers make ASIC miners at scale. Canaan's total output does not show how many machines HIVE can obtain.
Nvidia Corp earningsNVDA
HIVE needs NVIDIA GPUs to equip its H200 and B200 clusters and customers to rent them, so NVIDIA's report can signal conditions on both sides of HIVE's GPU business.
Read NVIDIA's disclosed demand for advanced GPUs alongside supply and deliveries. Strong demand with rising supply would suggest customers want computing capacity and chips are becoming more available, supporting HIVE's rental market. Strong demand with constrained supply could make it harder for HIVE to add rentable GPUs. Weak demand could mean customers are spending less on computing, making HIVE's GPUs harder to rent. NVIDIA's overall business does not establish HIVE's orders or rental utilization.
