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Banks provide $22 billion chip loan to Blackstone, Alphabet AI cloud venture, source says

channelnewsasia.com ·2026-09-16

Banks provide $22 billion chip loan to Blackstone, Alphabet AI cloud venture, source says

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Sources: a group of 10 banks is providing a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's venture Crux AI, which provides compute for AI labs, to fund TPU purchases (Bloomberg) bloomberg.com
Blackstone, Alphabet’s Crux AI to borrow $22b for TPUs techinasia.com
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