Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets completed the acquisition of an 88% stake in AirTrunk, a hyperscale data centre platform for large cloud, content and enterprise customers across APAC, from Goldman Sachs, Sixth Street Partners and founder, Robin Khuda, for $1.8bn. “The global data centre industry has grown significantly in recent years, driven by an exponential increase in data consumption, increasing cloud applications and the shift from internal IT infrastructure to outsourced resources. In the Asia-Pacific, this thematic is amplified by the region’s emerging economies and growing populations, leading to increasing data usage and a greater need for in-country computing workloads and storage," Frank Kwok, MIRA Head of Asia-Pacific.