AirTrunk doubles down on Australian hyperscale data centres

AirTrunk, a specialist in hyperscale data centers, has successfully completed an AU$850 million financing process to fund a major expansion of its Australian data centers in Sydney and Melbourne, and across key Asia-Pacific markets.

The expansion has been driven by strong customer demand for hyperscale data center solutions.

Deutsche Bank is the lead arranger, underwriter and sole book runner for the new senior secured debt facilities.

The financing will be the largest by a data center company in Australia.

AirTrunk founder and CEO, Robin Khuda, and shareholders, Goldman Sachs and TSSP, have also contributed new capital to support the expansion plans.

Khuda comments, "We saw a substantial amount of global interest in AirTrunk throughout the process, and are delighted to complete this financing arrangement with Deutsche Bank.

"Together with the new capital recently contributed by our shareholders, the new funds put us in a strong position to meet the growing demand from large cloud, content and enterprise customers in the Asia-Pacific region.

AirTrunk opened its two Australian data centers last year – AirTrunk Sydney in September and AirTrunk Melbourne in November.

The two facilities are set to be the largest independent data centers in the Asia-Pacific region when completed at 90 megawatts and 84 megawatts respectively.

"AirTrunk continues to pursue its ambition to be the leader in hyperscale data centers for the region."

Khuda adds, "The expansion in Australia will establish AirTrunk as the largest data center operator in Australia by deployed capacity and we continue to pursue aggressive growth opportunities across the Asia-Pacific region.

AirTrunk is a hyperscale data center specialist creating a platform for cloud, content and large enterprise customers across the Asia-Pacific region.

AirTrunk is a private company that is supposedly well capitalised to fund its development of data centers across Asia Pacific.