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Notably Boom's big pivot a month ago was to start selling their supersonic designed engines to data centers for power. I struggle to imagine this is a very eff
by jauntywundrkind 10mo ago
Notably Boom's big pivot a month ago was to start selling their supersonic designed engines to data centers for power.
I struggle to imagine this is a very efficient design, that something designed for going mach 1.something breathing significant air is ideally suited for being at sea level not moving running a generator. Just feels like the stupid timeline having it laughs at us all again. https://boomsupersonic.com/press-release/boom-supersonic-to-power-ai-data-centers-with-superpower-natural-gas-turbines-adds-300-million-in-new-funding https://boomsupersonic.com/press-release/boom-supersonic-to-...
Update: also, I was surprised in the first place because I thought the big challenge for boom was they were trying & failing to get engines. They eventually got Kratos to sign up but I thought it'd mostly be a Kratos engine...
https://ir.kratosdefense.com/news-releases/news-release-details/kratos-selected-engine-design-team-boom-led-collaboration https://ir.kratosdefense.com/news-releases/news-release-deta...
- positron26 10mo agoThat is not a pivot I would have expected. Aviation turbines are not good utility turbines. If you just need to beef up your turbine engineering, drone turbines are probably the place to go. Less competition from GE etc.
- notahacker 10mo agoIt's a VC fundraising oriented pivot I think.
- fragmede 10mo agoI don't think they expected it either, but it's building expertise in that general area, the question is if that expertise will transfer back over to supersonic jet engines, or if they're different enough that they can't.