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AirTrunk has submitted plans for a 320MW facility in Sydney, Australia

AirTrunk has filed for its Sydney, Australia, SYD3 data center campus. After purchasing the land in 2021, the company has submitted plans to the New South Wales Department of Planning for a 320MW data center spanning 1.3 million square feet across seven stories.The property in question cost $7...

August 01, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AirTrunk

Equinix, AirTrunk, Microsoft, and GDS are chosen by Singapore for an 80MW data center experiment

As Singapore looks to end a years-long prohibition on new developments, four data center operators have been given 80MW of capacity for new facilities. Since 2019, Singapore has imposed a ban on the construction of new data centers; however, previously authorized facilities were permitted to b...

July 14, 2023

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Singapore

AirTrunk to develop HKG2, its second facility in Hong Kong

AirTrunk is developing its second facility in Hong Kong, located in the East New Territories. The facility, AirTrunk HKG2, will offer 15 MW, spanning 11,600 sqm (124,860 sq ft), with 4,400 sqm (4,7360 sq ft) of technical space. The facility will have a PUE of 1.25, and initial capacity is set...

June 28, 2023

AirTrunk

Another sustainability-linked loan secured by AirTrunk

AirTrunk has announced that it has secured a new AU$ 650 million (US$432.5m) Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL) in Japan. This latest addition, it has outlined, means that all debt platforms are now linked to sustainability targets; a total of AU$ 5 billion (US$3.3bn) in Environmental, Social, ...

March 15, 2023

AirTrunk

Airtrunk data center development at Tokyo data center

AirTrunk has announced that it has broken ground on the second phase of its TOK2 data center located in Tokyo, Japan. This follows the groundbreaking of the first phase only three months ago. The company has outlined that the new phase is scalable to approximately 50MW of capacity and custom-...

February 22, 2023

AirTrunk Tokyo TOK2

AirTrunk to develop 150MW campus in Johor, Malaysia

AirTrunk is expanding into Malaysia, with its first data center in the country. The facility, JHB1, will be in the Johor Bahru area, and span 21,900 sqm (235,750 sq ft) of space across 20 data halls, offering more than 150MW of capacity. In addition to this, it will have 370 sqm (4,000 sqm) o...

January 23, 2023

AirTrunk

Alibaba Opens New Data Center in Tokyo

Alibaba has established a data center in Tokyo, Japan. The company stated in December 2022 that its Alibaba Cloud/Aliyun division had opened a third data center in Japan to "meet the transformation expectations" of clients. Unique Song, General Manager of Japan for Alibaba Cloud Intelligence, ...

December 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Tokyo

AirTrunk Breaks Ground on TOK2 Data Center

AirTrunk has announced that it has begun constructing its TOK2 data center facility. The hyperscale data center will be located in West Tokyo, offering up to 110MW of capacity. The company first announced the facility in May and said it would span across 4.6 hectares of land. AirTrunk held...

November 17, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AirTrunk

AirTrunk signs renewable energy agreement to offset Microsoft’s energy use

AirTrunk and Hong Kong utility CLP Power have signed a renewable energy agreement to offset Microsoft's energy use in its facilities by matching its electricity consumption with local renewable energy certificates (RECs). Through this agreement, AirTrunk will source hourly RECs from CLP Power...

November 14, 2022

AirTrunk

AirTrunk secures green loan for Tokyo data center

AirTrunk has announced that it has closed Japan’s first data center green loan as part of its new Green Financing Framework to finance its 110+MW West Tokyo data center, AirTrunk TOK2. The size of the loan has not yet been disclosed. In line with the company’s green financing framework, its p...

September 09, 2022

AirTrunk

Hulic's Plan For a Data Center in Tokyo Revealed

Japanese real estate company Hulic has plans to develop a data center in Tokyo, Japan. According to the Japanese press and Japan Property Central, the firm will be building the data center on the site of an existing office it owns. The office is located in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. Hulic will demolis...

May 23, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Tokyo

Airtrunk expands in Tokyo

AirTrunk has announced plans to build its eighth data center in Tokyo, Japan. The facility, namely TOK2, will be located in West Tokyo and have a capacity of over 110MW, with the campus built on over 4.6 hectares (11.36 acres) of land. With this new addition, the company now has an overall co...

May 18, 2022

AirTrunk

Gaw Capital Partners Acquires Building For Data Center in Tokyo, Japan

Gaw Capital Partners has announced the acquisition of a building in Tokyo, Japan. The real estate private equity firm also plans to transform the building into a data center. The Fuchu Building it acquired is next to Meito Sangyo Building in Fuchu Intelligent Park. Gaw will demolish the 59,...

April 08, 2022

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Tokyo

AirTrunk to develop 320MW hyperscale data center in Sydney

AirTrunk has revealed its plans for a new 320MW data center campus in Sydney. Upon completion, the facility will be the largest single hyperscale data center campus in the Asia Pacific region outside of China. The facility will be called SYD3, and it will be located in western Sydney. SYD3 ...

November 05, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

AirTrunk

Sustainable Finance: New way to address the environmental footprint of data centers

Much has been said about how data centers adversely affect the environment. However, more data centers have begun to become 'Greener.' Besides, in order to leave a better environmental footprint, many data center companies are now spending more on green energy. Investors and data center fin...

September 27, 2021

Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

Digital Realty Trust

A commitment to a greener future: AirTrunk converts $1.545bn in sustainability linked loans

AirTrunk has announced it has converted its corporate loan facilities of over AU$2.1 billion (US$1.545bn) into a Sustainability Linked Loan (SLL). The tech company is the latest to join the wave of data center companies pursuing these kinds of loans, alongside Aligned, KPN, and Nabiax.As per ...

September 14, 2021

AirTrunk

Macquarie finalizes acquisition of AirTrunk

Macquarie has finalized the acquisition of AirTrunk. The deal, which values AirTrunk at $1.9B (USD), was led by Macquarie Asia Infrastructure Fund 2 (MAIF2) and other MIRA-managed partners. The 88% stake was acquired from Goldman Sachs, Sixth Street Partners (formerly TSSP) and from AirTrunk f...

April 08, 2020

Eric Bell

AirTrunk

Macquarie to acquire AirTrunk

Bloomberg reports that AirTrunk has agreed to be acquired by Macquaire Infrastructure & Real Assets for $2.1 billion USD ($3 billion AUD). AirTrunk, an Australian based provider, operates data centers in Sydney, Melbourne, and Singapore and has announced plans to open a facility in Hong K...

January 10, 2020

Eric Bell

AirTrunk

AirTrunk appoint Mark Adams as Advisory Board Member

AirTrunk today announced the appointment of Mark Adams as an independent advisory board member. Along with advising the AirTrunk board, Mark will provide strategic input into AirTrunk’s Asia-Pacific expansion plan. Mark is a seasoned strategy and M&A executive and brings to AirTrunk his e...

October 28, 2019

Eric Advinci

AirTrunk

AirTrunk raises $621m for expansion

Singapore-based AirTrunk announced that it has successfully completed an AU$850 million (US$621m) financing round to fund a major expansion of its Australian data centers in Sydney and Melbourne, as well as across key Asia-Pacific markets. Deutsche Bank is the underwriter for the new financing...

August 22, 2018

Eric Bell

AirTrunk

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