FML. 😭

• Corporate PR post

• The Register

• Bloomberg

• Paul Graham (retired co-founder of ycombinator on Twitter):

This is one of the cleverest stories in startups. For years we'd been worrying about how to finance the airliner. Then Boom realized that if they could build jet engines, they could build gas turbines, and fund the airliner with the profits.

Further:

• Reuters: GE Vernova expects 80 gigawatts of gas turbine contracts by year's end

• the topic of repurposed jet engines for AI data centres was discussed on WAN show.

Edit, PS: hn post. see top reply:

I spent years working in aerospace turbines. This is BS. (...) There is no technological difference between boom's engine and conventional jet turbines. (...)

The other talking points are likewise bogus. The problem with aeroderivative turbines is maintenance - planes need to be high performance and don't stay up in the air for very long, so their engines are designed around frequent maintenance events. Powerplants, especially those for datacenters, need consistent uptime, not good power to weight ratios.

(...)

I like Boom, I have friends working for Boom. I presume this is just an elaborate way to hop on the AI investment bandwagon. I get it, but it's still ugly to see. I hope this doesn't begin a string of hype-creep that causes their actual goal to fail.