{"id":434429,"date":"2026-05-19T04:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/434429\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:06:10","slug":"blackstone-and-google-to-develop-tpu-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/434429\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone and Google to develop TPU cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"o3ooa\">Today, Blackstone announced a joint venture with Google to create a new TPU cloud, giving customers more choice and flexibility in how they access cloud TPUs.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"47mak\">Blackstone is making an initial $5 billion equity commitment to bring an expected 500MW of capacity online in 2027. Google will supply TPUs, software and services to the new company.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6t346\">This partnership combines Google&#8217;s advanced AI compute technology with Blackstone&#8217;s expertise in digital infrastructure to help meet surging global demand for advanced AI workloads. You can find out more in Blackstone\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackstone.com\/news\/press\/blackstone-announces-joint-venture-with-google-to-create-new-tpu-cloud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, Blackstone announced a joint venture with Google to create a new TPU cloud, giving customers more choice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,11439,69,145],"class_list":["post-434429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-none","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}