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

Cnbc · · 482 words · By Matthew Chin
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“Blackstone, the world's largest private owner of data centers, will invest $5 billion in equity capital in a new artificial intelligence infrastructure company with Google”
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Multiple independent sources, including WSJ reports and a Blackstone announcement, confirm the $5 billion equity investment in a joint venture with Google.
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web search NEUTRAL — Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. It was founded in 1985 as a mergers and acquisitions firm by Peter Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman, who…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone_Inc.
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web search NEUTRAL — Google teams up with Blackstone to launch a new AI cloud venture using Google’s specialized chips. Blackstone will contribute $5 billion in equity and hold majority control in the new U.S. joint ventu…
https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/google-blackstone-cr…
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web search NEUTRAL — Blackstone (NYSE: BX) today announced a joint venture with Google to create a new U.S.-based company that will offer efficient data center capacity, operatio...
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260518367552/en/Bla…
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“Google will supply the new U.S.-based company with its tensor processing units”
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Bloomberg and other reports explicitly state that the data centers in the joint venture will run Google's tensor processing units (TPUs).
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web search NEUTRAL — Google LLC (/ ˈɡuː.ɡəl / ⓘ, GOO-gəl) is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, softwa…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
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web search NEUTRAL — Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for.
https://www.google.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Learn more about Google. Explore our innovative AI products and services, and how we're using technology to help improve lives around the world.
https://about.google/
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“bringing the first 500 megawatts of compute capacity online by 2027”
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Three independent news sources (Mint, Bloomberg, and The HinduBusinessLine) all specify the goal of bringing 500 megawatts of capacity online by 2027.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The AI bubble is a theorised stock market bubble growing since 2025 amid the AI boom, a period of rapid increase in investment in artificial intelligence (AI) that is affecting the broader economy. Sp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_bubble
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and dec…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) partially controlled by a nonprofit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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“The unnamed company will be helmed by Benjamin Treynor Sloss, who most recently served as Google's chief programs officer.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists only of general Wikipedia entries about the name 'Benjamin' and does not mention Benjamin Treynor Sloss or his role in the company.
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web search NEUTRAL — By allusion to the biblical Benjamin, in French, Polish and Spanish, "Benjamin" (benjamin / beniamin / benjamín, respectively) is a common noun meaning the youngest child of a family, especially a par…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin
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web search NEUTRAL — Dec 1, 2024 · As an English name, Benjamin came into general use after the Protestant Reformation. A famous bearer was Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), an American statesman, inventor, scientist and phi…
https://www.behindthename.com/name/benjamin
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 11, 2025 · Benjamin is frequently used as a boy name. Learn more about the meaning, origin, and popularity of the name Benjamin.
https://www.parents.com/benjamin-name-meaning-origin-popular…
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“The Wall Street Journal... said the private equity giant would hold a majority stake”
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Multiple sources, including reports citing the WSJ, confirm that Blackstone will hold a majority stake in the venture.
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web search NEUTRAL — Alphabet's Google and Blackstone are planning to establish a new AI cloud company, incorporating Google’s cutting-edge chips.The collaboration sees Blackstone contributing a hefty $5 billion in equity…
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/technology/3913481-tech…
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web search NEUTRAL — Upon completion, Blackstone will hold a majority stake in Neysa, reflecting not just financial backing but strategic confidence in the company’s leadership and vision. For Neysa, which was founded onl…
https://theglobaleconomics.com/2026/02/16/blackstone-neysa-i…
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web search NEUTRAL — Google, Blackstone plan AI cloud venture with $5 billion backing, WSJ reports.Blackstone will hold a majority stake in the unnamed U.S. venture. What technology will the new AI cloud company use?
https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/google-blackstone-cr…
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“The Journal also reported that the joint venture has already identified likely data center locations, some of which are under construction.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Google Wikipedia/About pages and does not mention specific data center locations or construction status for this venture.
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web search NEUTRAL — Google LLC (/ ˈɡuː.ɡəl / ⓘ, GOO-gəl) is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, softwa…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google
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web search NEUTRAL — Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for.
https://www.google.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Learn more about Google. Explore our innovative AI products and services, and how we're using technology to help improve lives around the world.
https://about.google/
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“Blackstone, which manages more than $1.3 trillion in assets”
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Bloomberg reports Blackstone has more than $1.3 trillion in assets, while Wikipedia and another source cite $1.2 trillion. Both confirm the scale is in the trillion-dollar range, with Bloomberg specifically supporting the 'more than $1.3 trillion' figure.
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web search NEUTRAL — Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City.As of September 30, 2025, Blackstone has $1.2 trillion in total assets under management, making it the w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone_Inc.
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web search NEUTRAL — Bloomberg Anywhere Remote Login. Software Updates. Manage Contracts and Orders.Blackstone, which has more than $1.3 trillion in assets under management, bills itself as the largest global provider of …
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-19/google-to…
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web search NEUTRAL — Blackstone’s $1.2 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries and…
https://news.balentic.com/news/article/AZoA0gmfuwJqlzSqhchTa…
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“earlier this month, established a similar venture with Anthropic.”
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Multiple sources (TubeX.Chat AI and other reports) confirm a joint investment/venture involving Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Anthropic to deliver AI tools.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An AI data center is a specialized data center facility designed for the computationally intensive tasks of training and running inference for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning models.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_data_center
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — CoreWeave, Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) cloud-computing company based in Livingston, New Jersey. It specializes in providing cloud-based graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreWeave
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA; Arabic: جهاز قطر للإستثمار) is Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, founded by the State of Qatar in 2005 to strengthen the country's economy by diversifying into new as…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_Investment_Authority
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“Shares of Alphabet and Blackstone rose by about 1% in pre-market trading on Tuesday.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding pre-market trading percentages for Alphabet and Blackstone on a specific Tuesday.
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“Amazon Web Services have similarly sought to develop their own semiconductor chips.”
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While the provided Wikipedia snippets for AWS are general, it is a widely documented fact in the industry that AWS develops its own chips (e.g., Graviton, Trainium, Inferentia), and the provided Wikipedia entries establish AWS as a cloud computing provider.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amazon.com, Inc. (doing business as Amazon) is an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, entertainment and artificial …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis. Clie…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a timeline of Amazon Web Services, which offers a suite of cloud computing services that make up an on-demand computing platform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Service…
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“Google... manufacturing its first TPU in 2015.”
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“Google runs its Gemini AI model on its TPUs, with Anthropic and Citadel Securities also among its clientele of TPU users.”
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“Nvidia's GPUs, first developed in 1999 for rendering graphics on computers and gaming consoles”
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“Demand for GPUs surged after the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in 2022, propelling Nvidia to the mantle of world's most valuable company in 2024.”
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“Earlier this month, Google briefly overtook Nvidia by market value.”
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