Blackstone plans to invest $5 billion in committed equity for a new AI cloud venture with Google Cloud. Total compute investment could reach $25 billion when debt financing is included. The venture will be built around Google TPU chips, related hardware, software, and supporting services, with an initial 500 megawatts of capacity targeted for 2027. Blackstone will hold majority ownership, and Benjamin Treynor Sloss will serve as CEO. The deal leverages Blackstone’s AI investment efforts and dry powder, while expanding commercial distribution of TPUs through Google Cloud. Google Cloud reported $20.03 billion in Q1 FY26 revenue, up 63% year over year, with backlog nearly doubling to over $460 billion.
"Blackstone ( NYSE:BX | BX Price Prediction) is committing $5 billion in equity capital to a new artificial intelligence cloud venture with Alphabet's ( NASDAQ:GOOG) Google Cloud, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The figure represents Blackstone's equity contribution alone. Total compute investment could reach $25 billion once debt financing is layered in, per Bloomberg. The $5 billion is a committed equity figure, not reported revenue or earnings."
"The capital underwrites a U.S. based company built around Google's TPU chips, related hardware, software, and supporting services, with 500 megawatts of initial capacity targeted for 2027. Blackstone will hold majority ownership, and Benjamin Treynor Sloss, a 20-plus-year Google infrastructure veteran, has been named CEO. For Blackstone, the deal taps $213.3 billion in dry powder and follows the recent launch of Blackstone N1, the firm's AI investment division, whose first deal was a $1.5 billion Anthropic partnership."
"For Google, it widens commercial distribution of TPUs alongside Google Cloud, which posted $20.03 billion in Q1 FY26 revenue, up 63% year over year, with backlog nearly doubling quarter on quarter to over $460 billion. Alphabet shares rose 1.64% over the week ending May 18, 2026, closing at $393.11. Blackstone fell 3.59% over the same window, closing at $117.04."
"The $5 billion check is small relative to Google's $175 billion to $185 billion 2026 capex guidance and Blackstone's $1.30 trillion in AUM, but it is structurally aimed at CoreWeave's positioning. CoreWeave's Q1 FY26 showed revenue of $2.08 billion, up 111.7% year over year, a $740 million net loss, $7.70 billion in capex, and a $99.40 billion revenue backlog, all financed against $50.8 billion in total liabilities."
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