Boom CEO: Powering AI Data Centers Will Speed Path to Supersonic Flights
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Boom Supersonic is now providing turbines to data centers to help fuel the AI boom. The company’s CEO says the move won’t detract from its ambitions of reviving supersonic flight.
Boom Supersonic — which has been trying to commercialize supersonic flight — is now powering AI data centers.
The company is selling a version of its turbine engine to power these data centers and its first customer is AI infrastructure company Crusoe. To develop these engines, Boom Supersonic raised $300 million in additional capital in a funding round led by Darsana Capital Partners.
The move into AI data centers is an unusual one for Boom Supersonic. Founder and CEO Blake Scholl told Skift that the move won’t affect the company’s main mission: launching supersonic jets by the end of the decade.
“It's very much on track. I think ultimately this is going to be an accelerant,” Scholl said. “We're
