轰超音速CEO Blake Schol在一家专门为AI数据中心制造天然气涡轮机的工厂揭幕时发言。
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轰超音速CEO Blake Schol在一家专门为AI数据中心制造天然气涡轮机的工厂揭幕时发言。
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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Boom可能正面临动荡
该公司的首个客户之一，联合航空CEO斯科特·克比(英语：Scott Kirby)曾表示怀疑出自"Booom"最初计划在2029年交付第一架Overture超音速客机的计划。 Kirby最新的坦率评价来自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首先在2024年和2025年为驾驶其XB-1示范飞机做了头条新闻，以展示利用Mach Cutoffe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，从而使飞机的冲击波向上反射并尽量减少对地面的影响。
公司恢复超音速航空出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)在总统唐纳德·特朗普下达行政命令后，提出新规则，推翻长期禁止飞越美国的商业超音速航班。
room的新闻稿之前已经描述过在2029年前实现飞机认证并搭载第一个付费客户。 该公司与美国航空公司、日本航空公司和联合航空公司签有有条件的协议，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完全购买。
但United CEO Kirby指出，在开发Overture并获得FAA认证的超音速客机的同时，Boom仍有"许多障碍需要克服". 虽然他赞扬了肖尔和整个公司
这也是柯比先前在3月发表的评论的结果，即Boom的Overture客机进入商业服务的机会为"50-50". Ars已经联系到Boom 征求意见。
虽然Booom于2024年完成了原计划生产Overture航空公司的工厂建设，但位于北卡罗莱纳州格林斯伯勒的皮德蒙特三合会国际机场的设施自那时起大多处于休眠状态。 这给北卡罗莱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来帮助建造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。 这与Booom使用Mach停机航班完全不同。
砰想骑着AI快车
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(Collorado Century)出产一款名为"超级动力"的42兆瓦天然气涡轮机，用于数据中心。
美国能源部长克丽斯·赖特(Chris Wright)与科罗拉多州州长贾里德·波利斯(Jared Polis)一起参加了此次活动，特朗普政府公开支持了"Boo"，这再次显露出来。
轰将自己新建的"超级动力"工厂描述为正在建设时制造涡轮机零件。 它旨在于2027年中向AI数据中心提供第一批燃气涡轮机客户，同时将年产量提升至2028年的25个涡轮机和2029年的50个涡轮机。
与许多科技公司将天然气列为主要动力源，一些数据中心开发商甚至使用市场智能平台Cleanview(Cleanview)所说的“被捆绑到半卡车上的流动燃气发电机”或“最初为飞机和军舰设计的航空涡轮机”。
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，数据中心开发商克鲁索购买了29台Bom的燃气涡轮机。 克吕索参与了德克萨斯州Oracle,Google和Microsoft数据中心的建设，这些中心利用了包括天然气和可再生能源在内的各种动力来源。
肖尔称 Boo“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客机的交响发动机的设计具有协同效应。 在10月的公告中，它也描述了完成一个原型涡轮核心，叫"Sprint Core"，旨在最终为航空机提供超能燃气涡轮和交响发动机的动力。
涡轮核心设定将在科罗拉多航空和航天港进行测试，而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，但该公司仍然有许多工作要做，以证明它能够将其AI数据中心和超音速客机企业从地上撤出。
杰里米，你好吗？Hsu是一名记者，在深科技和AI中探索广泛的话题。 他先前曾为"新科学家","美国科学","IEEE Spectrum","Wired","Undark Magazine"和"MIT Tech Review"等多所刊物撰稿，涉及"深假","数据中心","无人机","电池技术","机器人"和"GPS干扰"等主题。 他还从纽约大学获得新闻学硕士学位，从宾夕法尼亚大学获得科学历史和社会学学学士学位，其中以英语为未成年人。
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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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