Crusoe and Boom Supersonic have ended their plan to launch Boom’s Superpower gas turbine together. Boom named Crusoe as its first customer in December 2025, with an order for 29 turbines and 1.21 gigawatts of planned capacity. The order formed part of a deal valued at more than $1.25 billion.
Boom CEO Blake Scholl said the turbines are no longer in Crusoe’s near-term primary power mix at Abilene and other sites. Crusoe confirmed to TechCrunch that the companies are no longer doing business. It said it chooses energy sources for each site as its plans change.
The cancellation removes the launch customer for a turbine Boom planned to start delivering in 2027. Scholl said Boom expects to deliver about 250 megawatts to other sites next year and is targeting one gigawatt in 2028. Those are Boom’s plans, not completed installations.
Different sites need different power
The change does not identify a single replacement for the Boom order. TechCrunch reports that Crusoe’s first 1.2-gigawatt Abilene campus, built for Oracle and OpenAI, draws its main power from the grid and uses a gas turbine plant for backup. A separate 900-megawatt Abilene campus for Microsoft is planned around on-site gas turbines. Crusoe has not said those turbines replace the Boom units.
That distinction matters for construction schedules. A data center needs power available when its computing equipment is ready, but a supplier’s announced capacity and delivery target are not the same as an energized campus. Crusoe’s decision shows how a builder can change the equipment in its plan before a proposed supply becomes operating capacity.
