{"id":1008570,"date":"2026-05-19T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008570"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:46:54","slug":"google-blackstone-plan-ai-cloud-venture-with-5-billion-backing-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/google-blackstone-plan-ai-cloud-venture-with-5-billion-backing-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Blackstone plan AI cloud venture with $5 billion backing: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s Google and Blackstone plans to launch an artificial-intelligence cloud company using Google&#8217;s specialized chips, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>Blackstone, the world&#8217;s largest alternative asset manager, is \u200cexpected \u2060to contribute $5 \u2060billion in equity and hold a majority stake in the unnamed U.S. venture, with a deal expected to be announced in a few hours, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Google will supply hardware, including its specialized chips known as Tensor Processing Units, or \u2060TPUs, as \u200cwell as software and services to the venture, the WSJ reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s Google and Blackstone plans to launch an artificial-intelligence cloud company using Google&#8217;s specialized chips, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources. Blackstone, the world&#8217;s largest alternative asset manager, is \u200cexpected \u2060to contribute $5 \u2060billion in equity and hold a majority stake in the unnamed U.S. venture, with a deal expected to be announced in a few hours, the report said. Google will supply hardware, including its specialized chips known as Tensor Processing Units, or \u2060TPUs, as \u200cwell as software and services to the venture, the WSJ reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}