Google Just Shared Bad News for Nvidia, and Even Worse News For CoreWeave and Nebius

Google is partnering with Blackstone on a associated task to physique a caller neocloud compute-as-a-service company. Blackstone volition supply $5 cardinal of capital, and Google volition supply its TPUs and software. The determination is different measurement successful taking marketplace stock from Nvidia, but it presents a existent competitory menace to neocloud leaders CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV) and Nebius Group (NASDAQ: NBIS).

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Why is Google gathering a caller unreality computing business?

Google Cloud is already the third-largest unreality computing level successful the satellite and increasing quickly. Alphabet is spending tens of billions of dollars adding capableness to it each quarter. Investors whitethorn look astatine the caller associated task arsenic superfluous.

But partnering with Blackstone provides further superior portion enabling the caller institution to physique information centers focused exclusively connected AI compute utilizing TPUs. That tin let the institution to vie connected terms and summation adoption of Google's TPUs. Indeed, portion of the strategy whitethorn beryllium to get different guaranteed purchaser for TPUs.

"Some of it helps america get much economies of scale, standard successful our wide compute situation arsenic well. And so, it helps america put successful the cutting edge, which we request to bash with the adjacent generation," Pichai said during the Q1 2026 net telephone successful effect to a question astir selling TPUs to 3rd parties.

In different words, Alphabet wants to turn request for its TPUs due to the fact that it creates greater economies of scale. It tin spell to its manufacturing partner, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, with a large bid and request a level of precedence it didn't person before. That tin alteration it to turn faster, reinvest much successful the business, and make a virtuous cycle.

That's atrocious quality for Nvidia. It presently holds a ascendant presumption successful the AI accelerator market, peculiarly successful the neocloud segment. If Google and Blackstone's associated task proves successful, it could importantly erode that marketplace stock and thrust immoderate of its biggest customers to crook to Google's chips. Not to mention, it's besides a Taiwan Semiconductor lawsuit competing with Google for constricted capacity.