Google is in talks to invest about $100 million in cloud startup Fluidstack, the Wall Street Journal reported on Feb. 20 local time, citing sources familiar with the matter.

If completed, the deal would value Fluidstack at $7.5 billion, the WSJ reported.

Fluidstack operates a cloud platform that supports AI training and inference workloads. It says it can rapidly configure large graphics card clusters. AI coding startup Poolside built a cluster of more than 2,500 graphics cards in 48 hours through the Fluidstack platform.

The latest chip available on the Fluidstack platform is Nvidia's GB200, which combines 2 Blackwell B200 graphics cards and 1 central processing unit. Administrators can run the infrastructure through Kubernetes or Slurm, and use an integrated dashboard to handle server provisioning, updates and maintenance. The monitoring tool Lighthouse detects hardware abnormalities in real time, including graphics card overloads and overheating, and PCIe link failures. Google's move is part of its strategy to expand its in-house TPU AI chips. Google is increasing financial support for data centre partners to grow the TPU ecosystem, including Ironwood, which it unveiled in April last year.

Fluidstack is also working with Anthropic. The two are pushing a $50 billion project to build AI data centres in the United States. The first facility is set to begin operations this year.