Google-Blackstone TPU venture faces site delays as Cheyenne plan shrinks: Bloomberg

Google-Blackstone TPU venture faces site delays as Cheyenne plan shrinks: Bloomberg

Thu, September 10, 2026 at 6:13 PM GMT+3 1 min read

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Project Braid, Google and Blackstone's $5 billion TPU-cloud joint venture, faces delays across several potential US data-center sites, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

The setbacks include a Cheyenne, Wyoming, campus that Google took over from Crusoe and subsequently scaled down. The report did not disclose the project's revised capacity.

Another potential location was found to have unsuitable transformers, while restrictions affecting data-center grid connections in Texas have created an additional obstacle. Bloomberg did not identify the transformer site or specify which Project Braid locations could be affected in Texas.

Despite the project-level delays, the venture says it remains on track to bring 500 MW online in 2027. Bloomberg reported that Project Braid has identified about 29 potential data-center locations, giving it alternatives as individual sites advance at different rates.

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Blackstone committed an initial $5 billion of equity when the venture was announced in May. Google is supplying TPUs, software and services for the compute-as-a-service platform, which will operate separately from Google Cloud.

The delays put early execution pressure on a venture built around a large and diversified development pipeline. For now, Project Braid's 2027 target is unchanged, but its ability to substitute among sites will determine whether individual development problems remain contained.