en.Wedoany.com Reported - Elon Musk has completed the acquisition of APR Energy, a developer of mobile natural gas generators, to support the expansion of his company's data centers.
According to Electrek, the acquisition became public only because the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an early termination notice of its review, approving the transaction without further scrutiny. The report states that Musk spent approximately $1 billion to acquire the Jacksonville, Florida-based company, with the FTC filing completed in May of this year.
APR has already established a foothold in the data center sector. In February of last year, the company partnered with Duos Technologies to deploy four mobile gas turbines with a total capacity of 100 MW for an unnamed major U.S. hyperscale data center. In June 2025, APR announced it had received state regulatory approval to advance the development of an 800-acre data center in Pampa, Texas. It is currently unclear whether the Texas data center will proceed. DCD has reached out for more information.
In recent years, Elon Musk's xAI has been embroiled in controversy for using gas turbines without permits at its Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee, and its Colossus 2 data center in Southaven, Mississippi. xAI exploited a loophole in the Clean Air Act to operate up to 35 gas turbines at the Colossus 1 data center without permits for a year, but local regulators last year approved permits for 15 turbines, valid through 2027. Earlier this year, the company subsequently deployed 19 turbines at the Colossus 2 data center. Reports indicate that these 19 turbines collectively provide over 500 MW of capacity to the data center.
The company's use of gas turbines in Memphis has sparked significant controversy, with environmental and civil rights activists claiming that xAI installed the equipment before obtaining the necessary permits and that they are affecting air quality in one of the region's poorest communities. The company is currently facing a lawsuit from the SELC and other environmental non-profit organizations over the deployment of these turbines.
