Elon Musk has bought APR Energy, a builder of fast-deployable power plants, in a transaction that surfaced through regulatory paperwork rather than any announcement from the parties involved.
An early termination notice in the Federal Trade Commission’s legal library, transaction number 20261350 and dated May 14, names Musk as the acquiring party and identifies New APR Energy LLC as the acquired entity. The filing lists CF APR Super Holdings LLC as the acquired party.
Early termination simply means the agency declined to extend its antitrust waiting period.
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No price was disclosed. Duos Technologies Group, which held a 5% stake, said in a securities filing that it received net proceeds of $50.4 million, indicating the deal was worth at least $1 billion
APR declined to comment, a Fortress Investment Group spokesman said he could not comment on the sale, and Tesla did not respond to emails.
APR’s modular generation units can be delivered, installed and commissioned in as little as a month. The company typically serves governments, utilities and industrial operators in markets where grid infrastructure is unreliable or simply absent. More recently it has marketed itself to data centre developers, hyperscalers and AI infrastructure firms, designing plants around high-density GPUs, advanced cooling and AI workloads.
The business has changed hands repeatedly. Private equity buyers took APR off the public market in 2016 for roughly $250 million and put in another $200 million of capital. Atlas Corp. bought it in February 2020 for $750 million, then sold the assets to Fortress after deciding to exit energy altogether. Fortress picked them up in late 2024, at which point the business was rebranded New APR Energy LLC.
What Musk plans to do with it remains unstated. Tesla’s energy division is built around Megapack and Powerwall, storage products that depend on an existing grid to charge and discharge against. APR’s fleet does the opposite work, standing up generation capacity where none exists, a capability that has grown considerably more interesting as computing demand collides with interconnection queues.
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