AirTrunk Targets Lucrative Data Centre Market in India with First Acquisition
The Australian Financial Review
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- Date Published
- 20 Apr 2026
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- Australian
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- 20 Apr 2026, 08:00 am
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Founder and CEO Robin Khuda unveils the next move in a plan to create a $100 billion data centre giant spread across Asia’s AI and cloud computing hubs.
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Australian data centre giant AirTrunk is expanding its infrastructure footprint with a $7 billion acquisition of Lumina CloudInfra to enter the Indian market. This move solidifies AirTrunk's presence across major Asia-Pacific AI hubs, directly supporting the physical Compute requirements necessary for scaling frontier AI capabilities in the region. While the expansion highlights the massive scaling of AI hardware infrastructure, the article focuses on commercial growth and market dominance rather than specific AI safety protocols or catastrophic risk governance. The development is significant for Australian economic interests in the global AI supply chain but maintains a purely industrial and financial perspective.
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TechnologyData centresPrint articlePaul SmithTechnology editorApr 20, 2026 – 3.30pmAustralian data centre giant AirTrunk will attempt to crack the potentially lucrative Indian market, making its first acquisition to buy out local operator Lumina CloudInfra as part of a $7 billion push into the country.AirTrunk’s founder and chief executive Robin Khuda said he has long viewed India as the missing piece of his company’s Asia Pacific plan, and the deal will mean it now has operations in all six of the largest cloud computing and artificial intelligence hubs in Asia: Australia, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and India.Loading...SaveLog in or Subscribe to save articleShareCopy linkCopiedEmailLinkedInTwitterFacebookCopy linkCopiedShare via...Gift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? LoginLicense articleFollow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.Find out moreRead MoreData centresMergers & acquisitionsAIIndiaSingaporeHong KongAsia-PacificJapanMalaysiaGoogleMicrosoftDeloitteSaudi ArabiaFetching latest articles