This Company Thinks It Can Power AI Data Centers With Supersonic Jet Engines

Data center logistics are becoming harder and harder to fathom as the centralization of compute power continues to scale beyond all reasonable proportions. We've reported extensively on the incredible electrical draw of modern and future data centers, along with their astonishing level of water consumption. But data centers don't just take resources in. They also put out a major waste product: heat.

Cooling a major AI data center is tougher than it sounds, and now a solution may be coming from a company more concerned with aircraft that can break the sound barrier. Boom Supersonic is now advertising a 42MW Superpower turbine generator for powering AI data centers, and its most promising feature is its ability to continue generating power, even in hot environments.

Specifically, the Superpower generator can reportedly maintain usable output efficiency up to 43 degrees Celsius (109.4 Fahrenheit), a significant improvement over similar products ...