Boom Supersonic jet startup pivots to power AI data centers
Yahoo Finance·2025-12-11 23:23

Boom Supersonic, the company trying to bring back faster-than-sound commercial flight, just closed a 300millionfundingroundbypivotingintoanunlikelybusiness:sellingturbinestopowerAIdatacenters.TheDenverbasedstartupannouncedTuesdaythatitsecuredCrusoe,adatacenterdeveloper,asitsfirstcustomerforanewproductcalledSuperpower.Crusoeordered29turbinescapableofgenerating1.21gigawattsofpower,withBoomclaimingithasabacklogofmorethan300 million funding round by pivoting into an unlikely business: selling turbines to power AI data centers. The Denver-based startup announced Tuesday that it secured Crusoe, a data center developer, as its first customer for a new product called Superpower. Crusoe ordered 29 turbines capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of power, with Boom claiming it has a backlog of more than 1.25 billion in orders fo ...