轰超音速CEO Blake Schol在一家专门制造用于AI数据中心的天然气涡轮机的工厂揭幕仪式上发言。
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轰超音速CEO Blake Schol在一家专门制造用于AI数据中心的天然气涡轮机的工厂揭幕仪式上发言。
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Boo Supersonic CEO Blake Schol最近宣布“现在是能源复兴和超音速飞行的时候了”，但Booom在两家企业的早期支持者质疑公司交货时间表或完全退出后，可能会面临动荡。
该公司的首个客户之一，联合航空CEO斯科特·柯比(Scott Kirby)，对Booom最初计划在2029年交付首架Overture超音速客机表示怀疑。 Kirby最近的坦率评价来自2026年10月28日对Office Hours: Business Edition播客的采访。
Kirby告诉播客主持人Monica Langley。 “29年不会发生
Boo首先为在2024年和2025年驾驶其XB-1示范飞机做了头条新闻，以展示利用Mach截断现象的“无动力巡航”概念。 这种壮举涉及在特定大气条件下在较高高度飞行的超音速，使飞机的冲击波向上反射，尽量减少对地面的影响。
公司恢复超音速航空旅行的计划得到了特朗普政府的支持，通过放松监管。 2026年6月，联邦航空管理局(FAA)根据唐纳德·特朗普总统的行政命令，提出新规则，推翻长期禁止飞越美国上空的商业超音速航班。
room的新闻稿之前已经描述过飞机在2029年实现认证，并搭载了第一个付费的客户。 该公司与美国航空公司、日本航空公司和联合航空公司订有条件性协议，其中涉及无法退还的金额不明的存款，使航空公司能够在Overture飞机投入商业使用后全部购买。
但United CEO Kirby指出，Boom在开发Overture和获得FAA认证的超音速客机的同时，仍然"有许多障碍需要克服". 尽管他赞扬了肖尔和整个公司。
这与柯比先前在3月发表的评论有关，该评论将Boom的Overture航空公司进入商业服务的机会定为“50-50 ”。 Ars已经联系到Boom征求意见。
虽然Boom于2024年完成了原计划生产Overture客机的工厂建设，但位于北卡罗莱纳州格林斯伯勒的皮埃蒙特三合院国际机场的设施自那时起大多处于休眠状态。 这给北卡罗来纳州领导人带来了融资问题，他们提供了超过5000万美元的纳税人资金，帮助建造Overture工厂。
自2025年10月起，NASA单独进行实验X-59号机型的试验飞行，该机型为长长的针状鼻子，旨在从超音速飞行中减少音爆。 但与Booom使用Mach停机航班完全不同。
Boo试图骑着AI的繁荣
Boo最近主要关注开发天然气涡轮，10月22日，发布公司又在科罗拉多州百年公司(Colorado)的一家工厂专门生产一种名为"超级动力"的42兆瓦天然气涡轮，用于数据中心。
美国能源部长克里斯·赖特(Chris Wright)与科罗拉多州州长贾里德·波利斯(Jared Polis)一同参与此次活动，特朗普政府公开支持Boom再次显露出来。
轰将其新建的超级动力工厂描述为制造涡轮机零件的同时仍在施工。 它的目标是在2027年中期向AI数据中心客户交付第一批燃气涡轮机，同时在2028年将年产量提升到25台涡轮机，到2029年将50台涡轮机。
与许多科技公司将天然气列为主要动力来源，一些数据中心开发商甚至使用市场智能平台Cleanview(Cleanview)的“捆绑在半卡车上的移动燃气发电机”或“航空涡轮机，原为飞机和军舰设计”。
然而，Bom CEO Scholl也承认最近损失了12.5亿美元的交易，在9月25日社交媒体平台X的一篇文章中，数据中心开发商Crusoe会购买29台Bom的燃气涡轮机。 克鲁索参与了Oracle,Google和Microsoft的德克萨斯数据中心的建设，这些中心利用各种电力来源，包括天然气和可再生能源。
肖尔称 room“明年将向其他地点运送大约250兆瓦的超级动力”，但没有具体说明可能使用燃气涡轮机的AI数据中心客户。
然而，Bomo将数据中心的燃气涡轮的发展定性为与Overture客机的交响引擎设计具有协同效应。 在10月的公告中，它还描述了完成一个原型涡轮核心，称为Sprint Core，旨在最终为航空机的超级动力燃气涡轮发动机和交响发动机提供动力。
涡轮核心被设定在科罗拉多航空和航天港进行测试，Booom计划在感恩节前首次发射涡轮。 这将是一个具体的发展里程碑，但公司仍然有很多工作要做，以证明它能够让自己的AI数据中心和超音速客机企业从地面退出。
杰里米，你好吗？Hsu是一位在深科技和AI中探索广泛话题的记者。 他之前曾为新科学家，美国科学，IEEE Spectrum,Wired,Undark Magazine和MIT Tech Review等许多出版物撰稿，内容涉及深假，数据中心，无人机，电池技术，机器人，以及GPS干扰等主题。 他还拥有纽约大学新闻学硕士，宾夕法尼亚大学历史学和社会学学学士学位，其中英语为未成年人。
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Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl speaks during the unveiling of a factory dedicated to manufacturing natural gas turbines for AI data centers.
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Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl speaks during the unveiling of a factory dedicated to manufacturing natural gas turbines for AI data centers.
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Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl recently declared “it’s time for a renaissance in energy and in supersonic flight” as the supersonic airliner company unveiled a Colorado factory dedicated to making gas turbines for AI data centers. But Boom may be facing turbulence after early backers for both ventures have questioned the company’s delivery timeline or backed out entirely.
One of the company’s first customers, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby, has expressed doubts about Boom’s original plan to deliver the first Overture supersonic airliner in 2029. Kirby’s latest frank assessment came during an interview with the Office Hours: Business Edition podcast that appeared on October 28, 2026.
“‘29 is their official timeline,” Kirby told podcast host Monica Langley. “It’s not going to happen in ‘29—it’s going to take longer.”
Boom first made headlines for flying its XB-1 demonstrator aircraft in 2024 and 2025 to demonstrate a “boomless cruise” concept that harnesses the Mach cutoff phenomenon. Such a feat involves flying just beyond supersonic speeds at higher altitudes under specific atmospheric conditions, so that the aircraft’s shockwaves refract upward and minimize the impact on the ground.
The company’s plan to revive supersonic air travel has been backed by the Trump administration via efforts to ease regulations. In June 2026, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed a new rule overturning a long-standing ban on commercial supersonic flights over the United States, following an executive order from President Donald Trump.
Boom’s pressreleases have previously described achieving aircraft certification and carrying the first paying customers by 2029. The company has conditional agreements with American Airlines, Japan Airlines, and United Airlines involving non-refundable deposits of unknown amounts that would allow the airlines to fully purchase the Overture aircraft once it becomes commercially available.
But United CEO Kirby pointed out that Boom still has “a lot of hurdles to overcome” while developing Overture and getting the supersonic airliner certified by the FAA. “So it’s not a guarantee that they’ll overcome,” he cautioned during the podcast interview, even though he praised Scholl and the company in general.
This follows Kirby’s earlier comments back in March that put the chances of Boom’s Overture airliner entering commercial service at “50-50.” Ars has reached out to Boom for comment.
Although Boom completed building the factory intended for production of the Overture airliner in 2024, the facility located at Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina, has mostly sat dormant since that time. That has raised questions for North Carolina state leaders who provided more than $50 million in taxpayer funding to help build the Overture factory.
Since October 2025, NASA has separately been doing test flights involving the experimental X-59 with a long, needle-like nose designed to reduce the sonic booms from supersonic flight. But this is a completely different approach than Boom’s use of the Mach cutoff flights.
Boom tries to ride the AI boom
Much of Boom’s recent focus has been on developing natural gas turbines to power AI data centers as an additional revenue stream. On October 22, the company unveiled another factory in Centennial, Colorado, dedicated to producing a 42-megawatt natural gas turbine called Superpower for data centers.
The Trump administration’s public support of Boom was once again evident as US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright participated in the event alongside Colorado Governor Jared Polis.
Boom described its new Superpower factory as making turbine parts while still undergoing construction. It aims to deliver the first gas turbines to AI data center customers in mid-2027 while ramping up annual production to 25 turbines in 2028 and 50 turbines by 2029.
Boom’s detour into powering data centers coincides with many tech companies prioritizing natural gas as the primary power source to get their projects up and running. Some data center developers are even using “mobile gas generators strapped to semitrucks” or “aeroderivative turbines originally designed for aircraft and warships,” according to the market intelligence platform Cleanview.
However, Boom CEO Scholl also acknowledged the recent loss of a $1.25 billion deal that would have seen data center developer Crusoe purchase 29 of Boom’s gas turbines, in a post on the social media platform X on September 25. Crusoe has been involved in building Texas data centers for Oracle, Google and Microsoft that draw upon various power sources including natural gas and renewables.
Scholl said Boom “will be delivering about 250MW of Superpowers next year to other sites” but did not specify the AI data center customers that may be using the gas turbines.
Still, Boom has characterized the development of a gas turbine for data centers as being synergistic with its design of the Symphony engine for the Overture airliner. During the October announcement, it also described having completed a prototype turbine core, called Sprint Core, that is intended to eventually power both the Superpower gas turbine and Symphony engine for the airliner.
That turbine core is set to undergo testing at the Colorado Air & Space Port, with Boom planning to fire the turbine for the first time before Thanksgiving. That would be a concrete development milestone, but the company still has much to do in proving it can get both its AI data center and supersonic airliner ventures off the ground.
Jeremy Hsu is a reporter exploring a wide range of topics across deep tech and AI. He has previously written for New Scientist, Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, Wired, Undark Magazine and MIT Tech Review, among many other publications, about topics such as deepfakes, data centers, drones, battery tech, robotics, and GPS jamming. He also has a Master of Arts in Journalism from NYU, and a bachelor's degree from University of Pennsylvania in History and Sociology of Science, with a minor in English.
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