Hive boosts Paraguay Bitcoin mining as rivals pivot to HPC
Holmes says Hive will keep expanding Paraguay Bitcoin mining and HPC sites despite leverage-driven BTC price volatility and short-term market contagion.
- Hive raised daily production from 3 to 10 BTC and plans further mining expansion using low-cost Paraguayan hydro power.
- Management sees Bitcoin mining and HPC as parallel “twin engines,” using BTC cash flows to fund higher-margin computing centers.
- Paraguay’s surplus electricity and pro-miner policy give utilities steady revenue while Hive builds some of its most powerful data centers there.
Hive Digital Technologies continues to expand Bitcoin mining operations despite recent market downturns, according to statements from the company’s executive chairman Frank Holmes during a TheStreet Roundtable interview.
Hive and crypto policy in Paraguay
Holmes attributed recent price weakness to excessive leverage in the market, stating that forced liquidations create short-term contagion effects. “It was not real cash buying. It was a lot of leverage buying. And anytime you get a lot of leverage buying and someone gets forced out you create a contagion and knock it down short term,” Holmes said.
The company has increased daily Bitcoin (BTC) production from three to ten Bitcoin per day and plans further expansion, Holmes reported. “We have been able to more than triple our daily Bitcoin production,” he stated.
Several major Bitcoin mining companies, including Bitfarms, MARA, and Hut 8, have announced high-performance computing centers or business shifts toward HPC operations. The sector has viewed HPC as a lower-risk alternative that can generate higher revenue compared to Bitcoin mining volatility.
Holmes described the two business lines as complementary rather than competitive. “Our philosophy is to run parallel. Not one is better than the other. They are both needed. And to build HPC, the fastest way to get your money back is to build a Bitcoin data center,” he said.
The company has identified expansion opportunities in Paraguay, where it plans to develop power and data center infrastructure. Holmes characterized the nation as “the only country in Latin America that is really pro-America” and praised the president’s policies toward Bitcoin miners.
Paraguay has historically sold excess electricity to neighboring countries, with Argentina currently owing over $200 million in electricity debt, according to Holmes. Bitcoin mining operations provide regular monthly payments for this surplus energy capacity.
“Bitcoin miners save the day. (The utility providers) get paid every month. Not only do we build substations all across the country, we pay them every month,” Holmes stated.
Hive Digital Technologies plans to establish data centers in Paraguay that will rank among the company’s most powerful facilities. Holmes indicated that short-term price fluctuations would not alter the company’s infrastructure development plans. “We believe that Bitcoin can come off in the short term but it is not going to deter us from building out,” he said.
