Elon Musk quietly buys a $1 billion gas turbine company to power Grok
Summary
<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/06/SpaceX-colossus-gas-turbines-pollution.jpeg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p class="wp-block-paragraph">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.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">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.</p>
<div class="feat-image"><img src="https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/06/SpaceX-colossus-gas-turbines-pollution.jpeg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600" /></div><p class="wp-block-paragraph">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.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">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.</p>