Google’s TPUs Get a Blackstone-Funded Cloud of Their Own

Google has spent years keeping its custom AI chips, the Tensor Processing Units, mostly to itself, rentable only through Google Cloud. The TPUs are Google’s own alternative to the Nvidia processors most of the AI industry rents to train and run its models. That is ending. In a joint venture announced on May 18, 2026, Google … Continue reading Google’s TPUs Get a Blackstone-Funded Cloud of Their Own