Boom Supersonic’s side business selling stationary power plants has lost the customer that was meant to launch it. Crusoe, the Denver AI data center developer, has ended plans to buy 29 of Boom’s 42-megawatt Superpower turbines, a package worth $1.25B when announced.
Boom chief executive Blake Scholl confirmed the split in a post on X, saying turbines no longer fit Crusoe’s near-term power mix at its Abilene campus and elsewhere. He put Boom’s remaining pipeline at roughly 250MW of Superpower deliveries to other sites next year, with 1GW targeted for 2028.
Crusoe told TechCrunch it has stopped doing business with Boom, presenting the shift as portfolio management. A spokesperson said the developer keeps its options open on energy, mixing turbines with wind, solar, batteries and grid supply as each site’s requirements change.
The reversal stings for Boom, which raised $300M last year largely to commercialise the power business and planned to use its profits to fund Overture, its supersonic airliner. Superpower shares about 80% of its parts with Symphony, the engine designed for that jet, and the first deliveries were due in 2027.
Denver’s Crusoe has travelled a long way from its 2018 origins, when it mined bitcoin using gas that oilfields would otherwise have flared. Today it ranks among the largest AI data center builders, anchored by an Abilene campus in Texas that serves Oracle and OpenAI from the grid with turbines held in reserve, plus a 900MW project for Microsoft that will generate its own gas power.
