HMC Capital’s David Di Pilla, the investment banker behind the ASX’s new data centre landlord, has set the $4 billion real estate investment trust’s sights on taking a larger slice of the US market, defying a soft start to trading on its sharemarket debut.

Seizing the US opportunity – home to the world’s biggest artificial intelligence customers – and delivering the hundreds of megawatts promised in its development pipeline will be keys to the success of the DigiCo Infrastructure REIT, Mr Di Pilla said on Friday.