{"id":1008600,"date":"2026-05-19T09:29:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T03:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008600"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:00:51","slug":"google-blackstone-plan-ai-cloud-venture-with-5-billion-backing-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/19\/google-blackstone-plan-ai-cloud-venture-with-5-billion-backing-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Blackstone plan AI cloud venture with $5 billion backing: WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s Google and Blackstone plans to launch an artificial-intelligence cloud company using Google&#8217;s specialised chips, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources.<\/p>\n<p>Blackstone, the world&#8217;s largest alternative asset manager, is expected to contribute $5 billion \u200cin equity \u2060and hold \u2060a 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 TPUs, as well as \u2060software and \u200cservices 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 specialised chips, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources. Blackstone, the world&#8217;s largest alternative asset manager, is expected to contribute $5 billion \u200cin equity \u2060and hold \u2060a 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 TPUs, as well as \u2060software and \u200cservices 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-1008600","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\/1008600","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=1008600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}