Blackstone and Google form US TPU cloud joint venture

TL;DR: Blackstone and Google announced a joint venture to create a US-based company that will provide data centre capacity, networking, operations and support for cloud services built around Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).

Blackstone and Google announced a joint venture to create a US-based company for TPU cloud infrastructure, according to Telecompaper. The company will provide data centre capacity, networking, operations and support for cloud services based on Google Tensor Processing Units.

The venture is US-based. The companies said it will support cloud services built around Google TPUs, which are Google-designed accelerators used for artificial intelligence workloads.

Telecompaper's report states that the joint venture will cover data centre capacity, networking, operations and support. The source excerpt does not provide financial terms, launch timing, customer details or capacity figures.

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