Blackstone's Jon Gray Doubles Down on AI With $200B Data Centers — SkimNews
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- Jon Gray, president of Blackstone, is making AI the firm's biggest bet, with the technology touching data centers, chip financing, and AI-driven deal advice, per a Bloomberg profile
- Blackstone has built a $200 billion data center empire as the financial backbone of its AI push
- Gray is also building a cloud venture with Google, extending the AI strategy beyond physical infrastructure into software services
Why it matters: Blackstone, one of the world's largest alternative-asset managers, is concentrating firepower on AI infrastructure at $200 billion scale, pairing physical data-center bets with a Google cloud partnership — positioning the firm to capture demand from the AI compute build-out while tying its fortunes tightly to a single technological thesis.
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