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  "id": 7919753,
  "title": "Blackstone, Alphabet’s Crux AI to borrow $22b for TPUs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/blackstone-alphabets-crux-ai-to-borrow-22b-for-tpus",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-17T01:19:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tech in Asia",
    "slug": "tech-in-asia",
    "url": "https://www.techinasia.com/news/blackstone-alphabets-crux-ai-borrow-22b-tpus"
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  "summary": "Crux AI has been described as a TPU neocloud, or a cloud infrastructure provider built around Google’s AI chips.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Banks provide $22 billion chip loan to Blackstone, Alphabet AI cloud venture, source says",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/banks-provide-22-billion-chip-loan-to-blackstone-alphabet-ai-cloud",
        "published": "2026-09-16T20:33:08.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "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)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/sources-a-group-of-10-banks-is-providing-a-22b-loan-to-blackstone-and",
        "published": "2026-09-16T22:20:01.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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