Crusoe, the AI data centre developer, has cancelled a $1.25 billion agreement to buy 29 natural gas turbines from Boom Supersonic, TechCrunch reported on Friday. Crusoe was the launch customer for Boom’s 42-megawatt Superpower turbines, a stationary power line the supersonic jet company started to sell to AI sites, with first deliveries due in 2027. The order added up to roughly 1.2 gigawatts of generating capacity.
Boom chief executive Blake Scholl disclosed the split on X, saying turbines were no longer part of Crusoe’s near-term primary power mix at Abilene and elsewhere. Crusoe pushed back on that framing. A spokesperson, Andrew Schmitt, said the company builds from the power up and picks the mix that suits each site, including turbines, wind, solar, batteries and the grid, and that it still plans to use turbines, just not Boom’s.
The cancellation follows Crusoe’s recent $3.9 billion Series F. The company runs a 1.2-gigawatt campus in Abilene, Texas, fed by the grid with backup turbines, and a 900-megawatt facility for Microsoft powered by on-site gas turbines. On-site gas has become a common workaround for data centres that cannot wait years for a grid connection, and that demand is exactly what Boom, which raised $300 million last December to build out the business, was betting on.
Scholl says Boom still expects to deliver about 250 megawatts of Superpowers to other sites next year and is targeting a gigawatt in 2028. Neither company has said why the deal ended, whether over price, delivery risk or performance, or whether any penalty applied. Until Boom names the customers behind those 250 megawatts, the order book for a product that has not yet shipped is a target rather than a backlog.
