Elon Musk has acquired mobile natural gas generator developer APR Energy to help fuel his company's data center expansion.
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According to reporting by Electrek, the acquisition was made public only because of an early termination notice from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approving it without requiring further review. Reports indicate that the tech mogul spent approximately $1 billion to acquire the Jacksonville, Florida-based firm, with the FTC filing completed in May of this year.
APR already has a firm foothold in the data center sector. Last February, the company partnered with Duos Technologies to deploy four mobile gas turbines with a combined capacity of 100MW for a major unnamed US hyperscaler. It followed up in June 2025 by announcing that it had obtained approval from state regulators to proceed with developing an 800-acre data center in Pampa, Texas. It is unclear whether the Texas data center will go ahead. DCD has reached out for further information.
Elon Musk’s xAI has been in hot water over recent years due to its use of unpermitted gas turbines at its Colossus 1 and 2 data centers in Memphis, Tennessee, and Southaven, Mississippi, respectively.
