Elon Musk quietly buys a $1 billion gas turbine company to power Grok: What Electric Mobility Buyers Should Watch

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Original title: Elon Musk quietly buys a $1 billion gas turbine company to power Grok
Original source: electrek.co
Original published time: 2026-07-14
Source accessed: 2026-07-15
Source URL: https://electrek.co/2026/07/14/musk-buys-gas-turbine-company-apr-energy-grok/

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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 “solar electric economy” now owns a fossil fuel power company — and he’s buying it to feed the electricity-hungry data centers running xAI’s Grok.