Bloomberg reported that Blackstone's data-center investments, including debt and projects under construction, reached $200 billion as of July.
Bloomberg reported that Blackstone President Jon Gray called AI the firm's most important current investment priority. Bloomberg reported that Blackstone is building a cloud venture with Google, has invested in AI companies including OpenAI and has lent against chips from Broadcom and Nvidia.
Broadcom's June 9 release said the platform would receive $35 billion initially, with Apollo leading that tranche and Blackstone as a partner; the financing is aimed at Anthropic's previously announced project to add more than 1 gigawatt of compute infrastructure.
