AirTrunk puts $30B behind 5GW of AI data centers in India

AirTrunk announced one of the largest AI-infrastructure commitments aimed at India: $30 billion of investment by 2030 to develop 5 gigawatts of data-center capacity. The Blackstone-backed Australian operator entered India earlier in 2026 through its Lumina CloudInfra acquisition, and India's government publicly welcomed the proposed investment as part of a broader digital-infrastructure push. TechCrunch notes that India's data-center capacity is projected by Bernstein to rise from roughly 1.5GW today to as much as 8GW by 2030. The story matters beyond real estate because AI training, inference, and cloud workloads are increasingly constrained by where power, tax treatment, fiber, and land can be assembled quickly. For India, the bet is also geopolitical: turning local demand and policy incentives into regional AI-compute capacity.

Key details: June 5, 2026, AirTrunk, $30B investment plan, 5GW data-center capacity, India by 2030, Blackstone-backed, Lumina CloudInfra acquisition.

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