When Emirati billionaire Hussain Sajwani casually mentioned to his long-term business partner Donald Trump over dinner that he planned to expand into US data centres, the president-elect sensed an opportunity.
“He says, ‘I have a press conference in a few days, and I would like to announce that’,” Sajwani said in a Financial Times interview last week in his villa on Dubai’s man-made Palm — a symbol of the entrepot’s excess and its appeal to global millionaires, from footballers…