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AirTrunk CEO Robin Khuda.

AirTrunk eyes AI growth with first $2.5b move of the Blackstone era

The Australian data centre giant has unveiled its first big move since it was acquired by the alternative asset manager in a $24 billion deal last year.

  • Paul Smith
Robin Khuda (centre) with female Sydney University STEM students (left to right) Anandikaa Rames and Loretta Payne. Khuda is making the largest ever donation to Sydney University to set up a STEM program for girls.

AirTrunk’s Khuda donates record $100m to boost women in STEM

AirTrunk founder Robin Khuda has donated an historic $100 million to the University of Sydney to fund a 20-year effort to get more girls into tech careers.

  • Julie Hare

January

Kellie Blauhorn and Andy Penn catch up with Penny and Grant Fowler in the Emirates seats.

Who’s really in and who’s out at the AO women’s final

Australia’s movers and shakers once more opened their social year in style, enjoying one of the true spectacles of global sport at the Australian Open.

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  • Myriam Robin and Zoe Samios

December 2024

The three-storey development includes five luxury apartments (artist impression).

AirTrunk’s Robin Khuda wins battle to build apartments at Palm Beach

The Rich Lister has seen off objections from residents to his plans to develop a series of luxury units next door to Barrenjoey House.

  • Larry Schlesinger
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Khuda’s plan to turn AirTrunk into a $100b-plus company

Robin Khuda believes injecting billions into Asian economies will open more doors to exponential growth for the data centre behemoth.

  • Campbell Kwan
Robin Khuda.

He’s inked a $24b deal but AirTrunk’s Robin Khuda is only getting started

The AirTrunk founder, who shares the Business Person of the Year title, came from nowhere to inking the global deal of the year in nine years. But he’s not done.

  • James Thomson
Back row, from left: Ryan Stokes, Robin Khuda, Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, Matt Comyn. Front row from left: Leah Weckert, Greg Goodman, Jack Gance, Sam Gance and Mario Verrocchi.

Business Person awards celebrate founder success

AirTrunk and Chemist Warehouse’s founder stories underline the importance of innovative and risk-taking entrepreneurship, perceptiveness, and persistence to build wealth- and job-creating enterprises.

  • The AFR View

Humble starts, billion-dollar deals unite Business Person of the Year winners

Founders of Chemist Warehouse Jack Gance, Sam Gance and Mario Verrocchi, and AirTrunk’s Robin Khuda take the top prize for 2024.

  • James Thomson

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