Gorilla Technology Group, the UK-based AI infrastructure company, has agreed terms to acquire an operational 6MW data center in the United States, with completion expected in late November 2026. The deal marks its first physical footprint in the American market.

The target is a live, revenue-generating colocation facility. Gorilla says the site offers a "pathway" to 36MW of total power capacity, and the company claims it has already secured written support from local utilities for an additional 30MW on an 18-month delivery timetable. The location and current owner of the site were not named.

Gorilla frames the purchase as the opening move in a broader land-and-power strategy. The company says it intends to secure 100MW of capacity over the next year and a half.

What does the deal change for Gorilla's customers?

The facility keeps running its current colocation operations after the acquisition closes. Expansion comes in phases, and Gorilla says it will follow customer requirements and next-generation GPU systems rather than building speculatively.

Until now, Gorilla has run AI compute deployments in data centers across the Asia-Pacific region, including India, Thailand, and Indonesia. It has owned no US infrastructure of its own. Owning the plant changes the economics and the control question at the same time.

"This is a defining step in Gorilla's expansion into the US," said Jay Chandan, chairman and CEO of Gorilla. "We have spent considerable time evaluating how we enter this market, and we believe the right approach is to own and control the infrastructure that sits underneath the AI economy."

Chandan was blunt about the scope of the ambition. "We are not entering the United States simply to acquire a building. We are establishing the first piece of what we aim to become a significant AI infrastructure business," he said, citing power, infrastructure, connectivity and customer demand as the ingredients for building "something considerably larger from this initial platform."

Control is the operative word. "Our objective is to control more of the infrastructure stack supporting our customers," Chandan said. "Owning the data-center platform gives us greater control over deployment timelines, power, cooling and operating economics. Combined with customer-led GPU deployment, we believe that creates a significantly stronger long-term business model."

What stands between signing and closing?

Plenty. The transaction remains conditional on due diligence, and the checklist is conventional for assets of this type:

• Infrastructure assessment
• Utility and power verification
• Property and lease review
• Site inspection
• Preparation of the facility's development programme

The 18-month utility timeline for the extra 30MW effectively sets the pace of any expansion. If the paperwork holds, Gorilla would move from a 6MW toehold toward a 36MW platform on a single site, inside roughly the same window it has set for its 100MW overall target.

The bigger picture

For a company whose compute footprint sits entirely in Asia-Pacific today, the move signals a bet that US AI demand rewards owners, not tenants. Whether 6MW scales to 100MW on schedule depends on power delivery, GPU supply, and customer commitments — none of which the company has yet quantified publicly. The late-November 2026 completion date is the first hard milestone to watch.