AirTrunk
Data centre company founded in 2015 that builds and runs hyperscale campuses in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. Blackstone and CPP Investments have owned it since 2024.
Industry: Hyperscale data centres | Founded: 2015 | Total Funding: USD 1.2B
About AirTrunk
AirTrunk is a hyperscale data centre company that serves cloud, content and large enterprise customers in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East region. Its website lists campuses in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore and names Saudi Arabia as a seventh location without listing a campus there.
The company was founded in 2015 by Robin Khuda, who remains founder and chief executive and was a founding member of NEXTDC. The site dates its first Australian hyperscale data centres to 2017. AirTrunk has operated in Singapore since 2016, and opened a regional headquarters there in March 2026.
Its website names 22 campuses, five each in Australia and India. AirTrunk said in March 2026 that it operates three hyperscale data centres in Singapore totalling 180MW of IT load and expects about 530MW across its four Japanese campuses at full build-out.
In October 2025 AirTrunk and the Saudi AI company HUMAIN, which is owned by the Public Investment Fund, agreed to build data centres in Saudi Arabia, starting with a campus involving about US$3 billion of investment. In April 2026 AirTrunk acquired Lumina CloudInfra, an Indian developer with about 600MW of planned capacity in Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad. After that deal it reported more than 3GW of operating and planned capacity across 20 campuses. In June 2026 it said it plans to invest US$30 billion for 5GW of capacity in India by 2030.
Blackstone and CPP Investments acquired AirTrunk in 2024, investing alongside Khuda, at a valuation the release put above A$24 billion. AirTrunk has since raised large project loans: JP¥191.6 billion (about US$1.2 billion) for its Tokyo campus in March 2026 and US$2.325 billion for the JHB2 campus in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, in July 2026. In October 2026 it reported a score of 100 out of 100 in the GRESB Infrastructure Asset Assessment and targets net zero emissions for Scope 1 and 2 by 2030.
Leadership
- Robin Khuda, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
- Carly Wishart, Managing Director, Corporate and International
- Prashant Murthy, Managing Director, Capital and Strategy
- Damien Spillane, Chief Customer and Innovation Officer
- Paul Slaven, Chief Development Officer
- Laura Coad, Chief Data Centre Officer
- Emma Spence, Chief People Officer
- Nori Matsushita, Vice President and Country Head, Japan
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