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summary: "A profile of Blackstone President Jon Gray highlights his focus on AI, a $200B data center empire, and a cloud venture with Google. The technology is reportedly integrated across data centers, chip financing, and AI advice on potential deals at the alternative-investment giant."
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# A profile of Blackstone President Jon Gray, who is making AI his biggest bet, has built a $200B data center empire, and is building a cloud venture with Google \(Preeti Singh/Bloomberg\)

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**Published:** 2026-10-17T12:35:02.000Z
**Category:** Industry
**Topics:** google, funding, llm

## Summary

A profile of Blackstone President Jon Gray highlights his focus on AI, a $200B data center empire, and a cloud venture with Google\. The technology is reportedly integrated across data centers, chip financing, and AI advice on potential deals at the alternative\-investment giant\.

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