Boom supersonic secured a $1.25b order from ai data center pioneer crusoe and closed $300m in new funding to advance its symphony gas turbine engine. I texted with sam altman—who confirmed power was indeed a major constraint Boom supersonic is developing an industrial gas turbine version of its symphony turbofan to power ai data centers, providing a technical and financial boost toward its goal of building the mach 1.
Boom supersonic has announced that its launch customer crusoe has ordered 29 superpower turbines to act as the power source for its ai data centers. I was reading post after post about the power crisis hitting ai datacenters—gpu racks sitting idle, waiting not on chips, but on electricity Blake scholl, founder & ceo, boom supersonic it started, as many things do these days, by scrolling on x
