{"id":176118,"date":"2026-01-10T02:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/boom-crusoe-when-aircraft-innovation-meets-data-centres\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T02:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T07:35:09","slug":"boom-crusoe-when-aircraft-innovation-meets-data-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/boom-crusoe-when-aircraft-innovation-meets-data-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"Boom &#038; Crusoe: When Aircraft Innovation Meets Data Centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aimagazine.com\/news\/how-boom-supersonic-turbocharges-ai-data-centre-power-supply\">Boom &#038; Crusoe: When Aircraft Innovation Meets Data Centres<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aimagazine.com\/news\/how-boom-supersonic-turbocharges-ai-data-centre-power-supply\">https:\/\/aimagazine.com\/news\/how-boom-supersonic-turbocharges-ai-data-centre-power-supply<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2025-12-22 03:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"aimagazine.com\">aimagazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Energy Solutions for AI Data Centers Emerge from Unlikely Industries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The AI industry&#8217;s growing energy needs are pushing companies to pivot into the data centre infrastructure market where they were not initially expected to participate. Boom Supersonic, a company best known for its work in creating supersonic passenger aircraft, has entered the AI data center sector by securing a significant order for natural gas turbines from Crusoe. The synergy behind this collaboration lies in the cutting-edge technology developed for jet propulsion, which is now being repurposed for the massive energy demands of AI data centers. Boom Supersonic recently achieved substantial financing, closing a US$300m Series B funding round with key investors including Darsana Capital Partners and Y Combinator. Meanwhile, Crusoe, focused on AI data centers and energy infrastructure, has placed an order for 29 turbines that will collectively generate 1.21GW of capacity to support its expanding technology infrastructure. This move underscores an innovative approach to meeting the acute energy needs of AI operations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unusual industry partnerships developing AI data center solutions are gaining momentum.<\/li>\n<li>Boom Supersonic leverages jet technology to supply turbine solutions for AI data centers.<\/li>\n<li>The company secured US$300m in Series B funding.<\/li>\n<li>Crusoe orders turbines from Boom to meet its expanding AI data center energy needs.<\/li>\n<li>This represents a significant strategic shift for companies outside the traditional data center sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boom &#038; Crusoe: When Aircraft Innovation Meets Data Centres https:\/\/aimagazine.com\/news\/how-boom-supersonic-turbocharges-ai-data-centre-power-supply Publish Date: 2025-12-22 03:30:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.bizclikmedia.net\/1200\/5dc78e1c6ad2feb00e71bf6f0f9aaaf5:7593652e5f8624be48b46465fa9e0e86\/251209-pr-boom-supersonic-to-power-ai-datacenters-with-superpower-natural-gas-turbines-adds-300-million-in-new-funding.jpg.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176120,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176118\/revisions\/176120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}