Elon Musk quietly buys a $1 billion gas turbine company to power Grok
15 July 2026 at 00:32
Elon Musk has quietly bought APR Energy, a Jacksonville-based company that operates a fleet of mobile gas and diesel turbines totaling more than 1 GW of generation capacity.
The self-styled champion of a βsolar electric economyβ now owns a fossil fuel power company β and heβs buying it to feed the electricity-hungry data centers running xAIβs Grok.