⚡Boom Supersonic Pivots to Gas Turbines for AI Data Centers With 2027 Delivery

Your supersonic airliner dream just got a gas turbine side hustle

Boom Supersonic wants to sell you electricity, not just supersonic seats. The company unveiled a factory in Centennial, Colorado, to build a 42-megawatt natural gas turbine called Superpower for AI data centers, and it says first deliveries land in mid-2027. Why should you care? Because data center power is now the bottleneck for AI workloads, and natural gas is the fuel many big tech companies are betting on. If your team is planning capacity for training clusters, a new turbine vendor with a shared core design is worth tracking. Boom says the Sprint Core prototype will eventually power both Superpower and the Symphony engine for its Overture airliner, which is the synergy pitch. The numbers: Boom plans to ramp to 25 turbines a year in 2028 and 50 by 2029. A prototype Sprint Core is done, and the company plans to fire the turbine for the first time before Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, the Overture airliner still targets certification and first paying passengers in 2029, even as United Airlines' CEO says Boom has "a lot of hurdles to overcome." Worth watching: whether the Thanksgiving test happens on schedule. The turbine business is the company's cash path while the airliner waits on FAA certification.