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Google and Blackstone to create AI cloud group

500MW. Google and Blackstone just announced a joint AI cloud group that's bringing half a gigawatt of data centre capacity online next year.

Reporting by Financial Times Technology 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Google is moving beyond its own capex constraints by partnering with Blackstone's capital firepower to accelerate AI infrastructure deployment. This signals a major shift: hyperscalers are now co-investing with mega-funds to unlock compute capacity faster than solo builds allow.

The key facts

4 to know

  1. Google + Blackstone joint venture announced

  2. 500MW data centre capacity coming online in 2026

  3. Partnership bridges hyperscaler + institutional capital models

  4. Addresses compute scarcity bottleneck for AI scaling

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Publisher excerpt: Search giant and world’s largest private capital group set to bring 500MW of data centre capacity online next year
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