The boom in data centres will put Robin Khuda on 2020's Financial Review Rich List, and the founder of AirTrunk expects to build many more sheds housing server racks in cities across the Asia-Pacific region.

AirTrunk, which earns more than $100 million a year renting rackspace to major public cloud companies, was valued at $3 billion in January when Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets (MIRA) bought 88 per cent of it from its owners – Khuda, investment bank Goldman Sachs and private equiteer Sixth Street, the latter two making a full exit.