Joseph Lam

Joseph Lam is a technology and property reporter at The Australian. He joined the national daily in 2019 after he cut his teeth as a freelancer across publications in Australia, Hong Kong and Thailand.

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06/09/2024. Robin Khuda, AirTrunk Founder and CEO, photographed at their headquarters in Sydney. The company has been acquired for $24bn by Blackstone. Britta Campion / The Australian

Go green before nuclear option, says AirTrunk chief

Renewable projects, such as solar and wind farms, can be commissioned more quickly than nuclear energy reactors, AirTrunk boss Robin Khuda insists.

Jared Lynch and Joseph Lam

takeoverTechnology

AirTrunk ‘set to be a $100bn colossus’

Robin Khuda, the founder of data centre operator AirTrunk, reckons driving the company to a valuation of $100bn won’t be that difficult. Here’s how he plans to do it.

Joseph Lam and Jared Lynch

takeoverTechnology

No sleep, champagne and dinner with the PM

AirTrunk founder Robin Khuda looks pretty good for a man who hasn’t slept much this past week. But it would be hard not to smile after agreeing to the nation’s fifth largest takeover.

Joseph Lam

data centresTechnology

Airtrunk founder and CEO Robin Khuda. Picture: AIRTRUNK / Juris Puisens

‘We’ve only just begun’: Khuda rockets up tech’s richest list

AirTrunk founder and CEO Robin Khuda vows to turn the tech group into a $100bn business after selling a big chunk of the business to US private equity giant Blackstone for $24bn.

Joseph Lam and John Stensholt

blockbuster paydayTechnology

Robin Khuda, founder and chief executive of Airtrunk.

Tech CEO to pocket $3bn with staff after blockbuster deal

AirTrunk’s boss, who arrived in Australia 26 years ago as a bright-eyed student, says its $24bn sale is ‘an extremely proud moment’.

Joseph Lam

takeoversBusiness

Airtrunk founder and CEO Robin Khuda with Macquarie Group Managing Director and CEO, Shemara Wikramanayake. Picture: AIRTRUNK

Blackstone buys AirTrunk for $24bn in historic deal

Blackstone hopes to capitalise on ‘unprecedented demand’ for digital infrastructure with its largest ever investment across the Asia Pacific region.

Joyce Moullakis and Joseph Lam

data centresTechnology

NextDC has opened its $100m A1 Adelaide data centre

NextDC opens $100m Adelaide data centre

The tech company has kicked open the doors on its 17th Australian data centre, a $100m investment in Adelaide’s CBD.

Joseph Lam

DealsCompanies

180 Airtrunk's Robin Khuda. Source: Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/robinkhuda/detail/photo/

Blackstone, CPP behind monster price for AirTrunk

Blackstone and its partner are poised to buy Macquarie Group-backed AirTrunk in a blockbuster deal which ranks among the largest-ever acquisitions of an Australian company.

Joseph Lam and Joyce Moullakis

WorkspaceProperty

The 56-storey, 263m Salesforce Tower is Sydney's tallest commercial building

Desk is best at Salesforce as tech giant bucks shared space trend

Salesforce is cutting down on collaboration spaces and hot desks in its new tower, moving away from a trend adopted by Afterpay and Canva, which the software company says just doesn’t work.

Joseph Lam

spaceTechnology

L-R: The 2024 Aussienauts team members are Peter Johnson (co-supervisor), Jack Xin, Justin Fang (team lead), Finn Prince, Sophie Wu, Connor Duigan, William Collins and Nick Barnett (co-supervisor and CEO of Interstellar Mapping)

Country lad wins grant to help prove there’s water on the moon

Nicholas Barnett has never been to the moon, but he has managed to convince the UK government to give him $58,000 to attempt to extract water from its soil.

Joseph Lam

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