Blackstone Announces Joint Venture with Google to Create New TPU Cloud

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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, 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 AI, and optimized for training and inference of.