{"id":487936,"date":"2026-02-18T12:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487936\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:55:08","slug":"why-airtrunk-is-tipping-ai-data-centre-boom-to-fire-up-australian-bond-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/487936\/","title":{"rendered":"Why AirTrunk is tipping AI data centre boom to fire up Australian bond market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AirTrunk is preparing to tap Australia\u2019s corporate bond market in a first for the fast-growing data centre sector, and as investors brace for a flood of artificial intelligence businesses to raise debt locally.<\/p>\n<p>The Blackstone-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5mxil\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data centre operator, which is valued at over $24 billion<\/a>, has been sounding out international and Australian investors with plans to issue asset-backed securities in the first half of this year as it moves to expand its debt funding options beyond the major banks.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AirTrunk is preparing to tap Australia\u2019s corporate bond market in a first for the fast-growing data centre sector,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-487936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}