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Crusoe Ends Its $1.25B Boom Turbine Deal
Crusoe has ended its plan to buy 29 Boom Supersonic turbines, saying the launch partnership no longer fits its current energy plans. Boom CEO Blake Scholl says the company expects to deliver turbines to other sites next year and is targetin
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Crusoe has ended its plan to buy $1.25 billion worth of turbines from Boom Supersonic, ending the companies’ launch partnership for Boom’s stationary-power business. The deal covered 29 Superpower units, each rated at 42 megawatts, with deliveries originally expected to begin in 2027.
Boom CEO Blake Scholl said on September 25 that the turbines are no longer part of Crusoe’s near-term primary power plans for Abilene, Texas, and other sites. Crusoe confirmed it is no longer doing business with Boom. The decision concerns this purchase and partnership; Crusoe says its energy choices remain specific to each site.
Crusoe cites changing site needs
Crusoe spokesperson Andrew Schmitt said the company is continuing to consider a range of power sources as it brings new campuses online.
“As our portfolio grows, we stay flexible, choosing the energy solutions that are right for each site as its needs evolve – including turbines, along with wind, solar, batteries and the grid. While Boom has been a great partner, the partnership isn’t the right fit today. We wish them well.”
Andrew Schmitt, Crusoe spokesperson
The company did not say it had ruled out turbines for future projects. Its initial 1.2-gigawatt data center in Abilene, built for Oracle and OpenAI, is powered by the grid, according to TechCrunch. A gas-turbine plant at that site is used for backup power. Crusoe is also building a separate 900-megawatt Abilene data center for Microsoft, which is planned to use on-site gas turbines.
Boom’s order and delivery targets
Boom announced Crusoe as the launch customer for Superpower on December 9, 2025. Its announcement described a 1.21-gigawatt order for 29 units and a backlog exceeding $1.25 billion. Superpower is a natural-gas turbine rated at 42 megawatts. Boom says it shares supersonic technology with Symphony, the engine it is developing for its Overture passenger aircraft.
Scholl said other customers remain in Boom’s pipeline. He wrote that the company expects to deliver about 250 megawatts of Superpower turbines to other sites in 2027 and is targeting 1 gigawatt in 2028. Those are company targets, not completed deliveries. Scholl also said Boom remains open to working with Crusoe if turbines become part of its primary power mix in the future.
The loss of its launch customer puts the focus on whether Boom can build demand beyond Crusoe. Boom raised $300 million in 2025 to commercialize Superpower, and Scholl previously told TechCrunch that profits from the stationary-power business were intended to fund development of Overture.
A new business tied to an aircraft engine
Boom developed Superpower as a stationary version of the turbine technology behind its aircraft-engine work. The company’s December announcement presented the data-center order as a major early commitment for the new business. Crusoe’s exit removes that launch partnership, while leaving the broader question of Boom’s planned sales and deliveries dependent on other customers.
Crusoe, founded in 2018, began as a bitcoin miner using excess natural gas from oil fields and has since become a builder of AI data centers. Its stated approach now is to choose power solutions according to the needs of each site, rather than commit to Boom turbines across its portfolio.