Blackstone has formed a joint venture with Google Cloud to create a new U.S.-based company that will offer efficient data center capacity, operations, networking and Google Cloud’s tensor processing units (TPUs) as a compute-as-a-service offering. The company will give customers another option to access cloud TPUs in addition to using them through Google Cloud.
Google’s TPUs are custom chips purpose-built for artificial intelligence (AI) and optimized for training and inference of advanced AI models. They have been developed and deployed in production for more than a decade and power workloads for many of the world’s top AI labs, capital market firms and companies running the most complex high-performance computing applications. TPUs also power Gemini and the AI-driven products Google delivers to billions of users globally.
The joint venture between Blackstone and Google is intended to give customers even more choice and flexibility for running their AI workloads
