Blackstone, the world's largest alternative asset manager, is expected to purchase a significantly higher number of Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) than initially disclosed when it announced a joint venture with Google in May, according to tech media outlet The Information. An informed source stated that Blackstone is seeking to procure "several times" the previously planned quantity.

In May, Blackstone announced a joint venture with Google in the US, with an initial equity investment of $5 billion. The goal is to bring 500 megawatts of data center capacity online by 2027, with the overall investment potentially reaching $25 billion, offering TPU hashrate to clients under a "hashrate-as-a-service" model. This latest development suggests that Blackstone's布局 in AI hashrate infrastructure may be further expanding.