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Boom's Supersonic Dream Finds a New Route Through the Data Center Power Business
· New York time
Boom Supersonic has unveiled a Colorado factory dedicated to making gas turbines for AI data centers, as questions grow about the timeline for its planned Overture airliner. United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby, an early customer, has expressed doubts about Boom's original plan to deliver the first aircraft in 2029. The company's data center power business has also lost a customer, according to Ars Technica. CEO Blake Scholl has framed the company's ambitions around both energy and supersonic flight. Those are distinct businesses with different customers, but each depends on delivering costly hardware rather than simply announcing a bold design. The factory adds an AI-related power venture to a company already trying to revive faster-than-sound commercial travel. It does not settle whether the airliner will arrive on the original schedule, or whether the new power business will meet its own ambitions. The contrast is hard to miss: Boom promised to make travel faster and is now also seeking to supply power to an industry racing to build computing capacity. Both markets have a taste for grand timetables. Customers, inconveniently, tend to want equipment as well. A turbine and an airliner may have different jobs, but neither can satisfy an order merely by sounding like the future.
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