This Month
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
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
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.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin and Zoe Samios
December 2024
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
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
- Opinion
- Business Person of the Year
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
- Opinion
- The AFR View
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
- Opinion
- Business People of the Year
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