Crusoe cancels $1.25 billion Boom Supersonic turbine deal for AI data centers

Crusoe, a Denver-based company that builds data center and cloud infrastructure for AI computing, has ended a $1.25 billion agreement to buy 29 natural-gas turbines from Boom Supersonic, the aerospace company developing the Overture supersonic jet. Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl announced the split on the social platform X on Friday, September 25, saying the turbines are "no longer part of Crusoe's near term primary power mix" at Crusoe's data center site in Abilene, Texas.

The turbines, which Boom markets as "Superpower" units, are built largely from parts shared with Symphony, the engine Boom is developing for Overture. Under the original deal, announced in December 2025, Crusoe agreed to buy 29 of the 42-megawatt turbines for a combined output of about 1.21 gigawatts to help power its AI data centers, with deliveries due to begin in 2027. The cancellation comes before any of the turbines were installed.

Crusoe says its broader power strategy has not changed. A company spokesperson told reporters that Crusoe still intends to use gas turbines, just not Boom's, pointing to roughly 1 gigawatt of generation equipment already ordered from GE Vernova and a separate contract with Bergen Engines. Crusoe also cited flexibility across other power sources, including wind, solar, batteries and the electrical grid.

The move lands weeks after Crusoe closed a $3.9 billion Series F funding round that valued the company at $30.9 billion, and after it stepped back from a planned AI data center campus in Wyoming. Taken together, the changes suggest Crusoe is leaning toward more flexible, modular power and facility commitments rather than large, fixed-scale contracts signed years ahead of delivery.

Losing Crusoe as its launch customer is a setback for Boom, which raised $300 million last year largely to commercialize the stationary turbine business, with the plan to use its profits to help fund Overture's development. Boom says the impact will be limited: it still plans to deliver about 250 megawatts of Superpower turbines to other customers next year and is targeting 1 gigawatt of deliveries by 2028.

The episode is a reminder of how quickly the market for AI data center power is shifting, as operators weigh long-term generation contracts against the uncertainty of fast-changing compute demand.