Google and Blackstone Launch AI Cloud Venture
Alphabet and Blackstone are forming a venture to meet rising data center demand through a compute-as-a-service model using Google custom AI chips. Blackstone will invest an initial five billion dollars in equity to bring 500 megawatts of capacity online by 2027.
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ALPHABET INC-CL A and BLACKSTONE INC will launch an artificial intelligence cloud venture to deploy 500 megawatts of data center capacity by 2027. The partnership pairs Google's custom AI chips with Blackstone's capital to meet surging infrastructure demand in the United States. Big Tech spending on AI infrastructure is projected to exceed $700 billion in 2026.
