Datacenters buy Boom Supersonic a ticket to revive fast air transport

Boom Supersonic, the company that hopes to revive faster-than-sound air travel, has diverted into the datacenter power business.

As revealed in a Tuesday post from CEO Blake Scholl, he was doomscrolling on X and saw “post after post about the power crisis hitting AI data centers.”

He therefore texted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who apparently confirmed the veracity of those posts, before contacting Boom’s engineering team, who unbeknown to Scholl had already created “the outline of a plan to build a power turbine based on our Symphony supersonic engine.”

“After a few conversations, it became clear: AI didn’t just need more turbines – it needed a new and fundamentally better turbine,” Scholl wrote. “Symphony was the perfect new engine to accelerate AI in America. About three months later, we had a signed deal for 1.21 gigawatts and had started manufacturing the first turbine.”

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