AirTrunk CEO and founder Robin Khuda has donated $100 million to the University of Sydney to boost women in STEM.

US tech titans are interested in building data centers in Australia, drawn by its green grid and proximity to Asia, as they face a growing backlash at home, according to AirTrunk Operating Pty Ltd.

Australia's AirTrunk said on Thursday it will ​invest $3 billion to build ‌two hyperscale data centers in Malaysia, doubling its existing business ​in the country.

AirTrunk’s Malaysian expansion comes after announcing the proposed acquisition of Lumina CloudInfra, which has 600 megawatts of data center projects in India and a development potential of up to $5 bi...

The Australian data center operator plans to set up 5GW of capacity in India.

Hyperscale data centre firm AirTrunk said on Tuesday it has closed an A$16 billion ($10.40 billion) refinancing as it looks to accelerate growth in the Asia Pacific and Japan region.

AirTrunk—backed by U.S. private equity giant Blackstone—is investing $8 billion to build data centers in Tokyo and Osaka, which when completed in the coming years will have over 530 megawatts of capac...

Australian asset manager sold AirTrunk business to Blackstone

AirTrunk is negotiating a multi-tranche debt package of approximately S$2 billion ($1.6 billion) to fund asset acquisitions and refinance existing obligations ahead of a confidential Singapore real estate investment trust initial public offering, according to a Bloomberg report.

New data centres from $4.6 trln Nvidia, AirTrunk and others use far less H2O than older ones. But many are in the same water-stressed areas. Thirsty power providers and chip fabs are problems too. The industry is a long way from proving its use of the wet stuff is sustainable.

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AirTrunk, founded in Australia in 2015, operates 11 data centres across seven cities and five markets in the Asia Pacific region. Its customers include large cloud technology and artificial intelligence companies. Whitelaw said the company already matches 86% of its energy use in Australia with renewables, but acknowledged more work was needed across the sector. Whitelaw referenced figures from the Clean Energy Council estimating that data centres currently represent approximately 2% of National Electricity Market (NEM) demand, a figure it projects could rise to around 10% by 2050. It was almost no surprise that this rising demand made data centres something of a “buzzword” across the two-day event, where it featured across multiple panel discussions. Whitelaw framed that growth within the broader context of an electricity system already under pressure from coal retirement, transport and industrial electrification, and population growth. “Australia needs to build at an unprecedented scale. We need substantially more generation, storage, and transmission, regardless of whether another data centre is approved,” she says. The policy landscape around data centre energy obligations has shifted rapidly in recent weeks. On 15 July, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that large-scale data centres would be legally required to put at least...

Blackstone will buy Australian data centre group AirTrunk for an implied enterprise value of over A$24 billion ($16.10 billion), it said on Wednesday, in what would be Blackstone's largest investment ...

Australia's AirTrunk said on Friday it would invest $30 billion in India within the ​next four years to build out 5 gigawatts ‌of new data centre capacity in the South Asian nation.