The artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout is entering its consolidation phase. In a decisive move that reshapes the competitive landscape, private equity giant Blackstone NYSE: BX and hyperscaler Alphabet NASDAQ: GOOGL announced a $5 billion joint venture to create a new AI cloud platform.
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Blackstone Inc (NYSE:BX) and Alphabet's Google have announced a joint venture aimed at developing a new US-based company that will provide dedicated cloud infrastructure centered on Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). The planned company will offer data center capacity, operations, networking, and TPUs as a compute-as-a-service platform, giving customers an alternative way to access Google's AI-optimized chips outside of Google Cloud.
Blackstone (NYSE:BX | BX Price Prediction) is committing $5 billion in equity capital to a new artificial intelligence cloud venture with Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Google Cloud, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Shares of CoreWeave (CRWV) fell in Tuesday premarket trading after Google and Blackstone unveiled a major artificial intelligence cloud infrastructure partnership that investors viewed as a potential competitive threat to the fast-growing neocloud sector. CoreWeave stock dropped 4.3% in early trading alongside shares of Nebius Group as markets assessed the implications of the new joint venture, which will focus on delivering AI cloud services powered by Google's tensor processing units, or TPUs.
Google is working with asset manager Blackstone to launch an artificial intelligence (AI) cloud company. The new venture is designed to provide “efficient data center capacity, operations, networking, and Google Cloud's tensor processing units (TPUs) as a compute-as-a-service offering,” Blackstone said in its announcement Tuesday (May 18).
Blackstone is backing Google's artificial intelligence ambitions with a major investment in a new data center venture built around Google's in-house AI chips. The alternative-asset giant is committing an initial $5 billion in equity to a new US-based AI cloud venture with Google, with plans to bring 500 megawatts of data center capacity online by 2027.
Google and Blackstone announced a new AI company to challenge CoreWeave and Nebius. The new AI company will leverage Google's TPUs to offer enhanced compute options for businesses.
Alphabet's Google and Blackstone plan to launch an artificial-intelligence cloud company using Google's specialized chips, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources.
The duo plans to launch the unnamed U.S. company with $5 billion in equity capital from Blackstone, which will be the majority owner, according to people familiar with the matter.
Energy startup VoltaGrid said on Monday it has signed agreements for $1 billion in equity investment from funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities and oilfield services provider Halliburton.
Blackstone will acquire Greek e-commerce platform Skroutz from CVC Capital Partners Fund VII, CVC said on Monday.