Overview
- Blackstone and Google announced a U.S. joint venture that will use Google’s Tensor Processing Units, with Blackstone committing $5 billion and Google naming Benjamin Treynor Sloss to lead the new company.
- The first data center targets a 2027 start and about 500 megawatts of capacity, with plans to expand after launch.
- The venture will offer compute built on Google’s TPUs, which are Google‑designed chips for training and running AI models that compete with Nvidia and AMD graphics processors.
- Blackstone is expected to hold a majority stake and may fund roughly $25 billion of further buildouts, according to the Wall Street Journal.
- The effort follows reports that Meta plans to buy Google TPUs and aligns with Blackstone’s broader push in digital infrastructure, including a planned site in Germany and a joint venture with Anthropic.