Musk quietly acquires $1B gas-turbine fleet to power Grok AI
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Elon Musk quietly bought APR Energy for about $1 billion to deploy mobile gas turbines that power Grok, the AI compute behind xAI, a move designed to accelerate capacity without grid interconnections but relying on fossil-fuel generation in communities already facing pollution concerns and drawing criticism for a pivot away from Musk’s renewable-energy branding.
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