Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.

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.

We are the future of supersonic flight! As soon as we do the AI thing!

  • fullsquare@awful.systemsEnglish
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    14 days ago

    yes this is not what they’re doing and it places severe limitations on speed and on conditions when they can fly at all over mach 1

    • Charlie Stross@wandering.shop
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      14 days ago

      @fullsquare Note that the restriction on flying over Mach 1 is over the USA only: over ocean it’s not restricted, it may be okay over Siberia and Canada (north of the heavily populated bits), etc.

      There’s a local minimum for drag around Mach 1.5 so that might be a better target speed for long haul.

      But really, we have in-flight wifi via satellite broadband now. And a couple of hours gained by flying faster won’t offset the several hours lost due to security theatre on the ground.