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Google, Blackstone launch cloud company as Wall Street races to fund AI boom

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  • The Blackstone-Google venture signals Wall Street’s strong appetite for AI infrastructure, leveraging Blackstone’s data-center footprint with Google's TPUs to offer compute-as-a-service.
  • The initiative expands access to Google TPUs beyond in-house clouds, offering another pathway for customers to use Google's AI hardware via the new venture and CoreWeave-like options.
  • Analysts see TPU alternatives reshaping the neocloud landscape, creating opportunities for Google-backed hardware as Nvidia-centric deployments face competition.

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Blackstone Announces Joint Venture with Google to Create New TPU Cloud - Blackstone

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Blackstone to invest $5 billion in AI infrastructure venture with Google, powered by TPU chips

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/blackstone-google-ai-data-center-joint-venture-tpu.htmlCnbc.com
Blackstone to invest $5 billion in AI infrastructure venture with Google, powered by TPU chips

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