Blackstone Group

The British Prime Minister's Office announced on the 25th of this month that the U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group plans to invest 10 billion pounds (currently about 93.653 billion yuan) to build one of Europe's largest AI data centers in the Blaise area of Northumberland (the capital city of Newcastle upon Tyne), starting from next year. The UK already has the largest number of data centers in Western Europe, and Blackstone's new project will further enrich the UK's AI computing resources, support the research and application of AI by local enterprises, academic institutions and the UK branches of multinational corporations, and promote the use of AI in the...