It’s prone to develop into a direct energy supply for SpaceXAI’s information facilities.
Elon Musk acquired APR Power earlier this yr, including a brand new enterprise to his portfolio: fossil fuels. APR produces cell gasoline and diesel generators that may be mounted on trailers. The transfer occurred quietly in Could, with no public announcement or declarations from Musk or APR itself. Electrek solely picked up on the submitting yesterday, and it estimates the acquisition worth at about $1 billion.
The most definitely software for this buy will likely be powering AI information facilities. Producing all that NSFW content material calls for an entire lot of vitality. APR’s cell fleet is just like the generators Musk’s xAI was sued for utilizing at an information middle in Southaven, Mississippi on fees of violating the Clear Air Act. Since that go well with was filed, the variety of cell generators on the information middle has elevated considerably. The Division of Justice is making an attempt to have the go well with dismissed in order that the US army can preserve utilizing xAI’s Grok for its operations.
Investing in gasoline and diesel marks fairly a reversal from the sport Musk was speaking a decade in the past, when he referred to as continued use of fossil fuels “the dumbest experiment in historical past, by far.” His enterprise might additional compound that experiment by constructing a pure gasoline pipeline in Texas.
