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Blackstone expands $200B data-center push for AI

By Drooid · Oct 16, 2026, 2:42 AM UTC · How we work

Summary

Story summary

Blackstone is building a $200 billion data-center empire, expanding its exposure from $55 billion in June 2024.
Blackstone President Jon Gray told Bloomberg the firm’s AI investments are its most important undertaking.
Blackstone partnered with Google on Crux AI, a cloud service that runs on Alphabet chips.
Blackstone pledged $500 billion together with five other financial giants to fund Nvidia customers.
Blackstone holds stakes in OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX.

History

Historical Context

In 2006 Amazon introduced S3 and EC2, creating the first commercial cloud infrastructure. The service grew to $46 billion annual revenue by 2020 and held 31% of the cloud-infrastructure market in 2023, ahead of Microsoft Azure’s 25% share. That scaling model now drives multibillion-dollar data-center builds for AI workloads, intensifying competition and data-sovereignty concerns.

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Story summary

Blackstone is building a $200 billion data-center empire, expanding its exposure from $55 billion in June 2024.
Blackstone President Jon Gray told Bloomberg the firm’s AI investments are its most important undertaking.
Blackstone partnered with Google on Crux AI, a cloud service that runs on Alphabet chips.
Blackstone pledged $500 billion together with five other financial giants to fund Nvidia customers.
Blackstone holds stakes in OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX.

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