Gorilla Technology Plans 200MW AI Data Center Campus in Thailand
May 7, 2026
Gorilla Technology Plans 200MW AI Data Center Campus in Thailand
Gorilla Technology Group, a Nasdaq-listed AI infrastructure provider, has announced plans to develop a large-scale data center campus in Thailand, signaling growing demand for compute capacity in Southeast Asia. The project underscores the region’s emergence as a strategic hub for AI infrastructure, driven by increasing adoption of GPU-intensive workloads across industries.
The company this week confirmed it has acquired a 40-acre land site in Korat (Nakhon Ratchasima), located approximately 260 kilometers northeast of Bangkok. The planned campus will deliver up to 200MW of capacity, comprising six data halls. Five of these halls will each provide 30MW, while the sixth will offer 50MW. Construction is expected to begin in July 2026, with the first phase targeted for completion by the first quarter of 2027.
Gorilla said the facility will serve both domestic Thai demand and broader regional requirements for compute capacity across Southeast Asia. Rajesh Natarajan, group CTO of Gorilla Technology, noted that the current planning model is based on a 200MW facility load supporting approximately 150MW of net IT load, with a target power usage effectiveness (PUE) of around 1.3. Under an illustrative all-GB300 configuration, using roughly 142kW per rack and 72 GPUs per rack, the campus could support approximately 76,000 GPUs at full deployment.
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in the UK, Gorilla Technology positions itself as an AI infrastructure solutions provider, with offerings spanning smart cities, network, video analytics, cybersecurity, and IoT. “Anyone can talk about AI, but very few can put together the actual physical platform required to run it,” said Jay Chandan, chairman and CEO of Gorilla Technology. “This milestone deserves to be celebrated. We’ve secured the land and utilities needed for large-scale compute and cleared hurdles that many others have not.”
Chandan added that the company’s funding strategy is centered on project-level debt, infrastructure debt, asset-backed financing, potential bond structures, and non-dilutive capital sourced through Gorilla Technology Capital. “We are targeting long-duration institutional capital, including pension funds, endowments, superannuation funds, and infrastructure investors that understand the real asset nature of AI compute. We are here to build a serious business using smart capital,” he said.
The project builds on Gorilla’s recent activity in the region. The company previously signed deals with India’s Yotta to deploy more than 25,000 GPUs across the country. Last year, Gorilla also entered into a three-year, $1.4 billion contract to develop a network of AI-powered data centers across Southeast Asia for Singapore-based infrastructure platform Freyr. While full details of that agreement were not disclosed, Gorilla said it would utilize local colocation facilities and deploy its proprietary AI stack, including GPU-as-a-Service infrastructure.
The Korat campus represents a significant step in Gorilla’s expansion strategy, positioning the company to capitalize on the surging demand for AI compute capacity in Southeast Asia, a region increasingly seen as a critical growth market for data center development.
Source: datacenterdynamics
