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Headline: AI firms turning to jet turbines to power computing boom
Caption: AI firms turning to jet turbines to power computing boom. Jet engines may be the answer to the AI boom’s eyewatering power demands - at last that’s what one company hopes. Boom Supersonic is known as a leading pioneer of jet aviation and are planning to bring the first supersonic airliner since Concorde back to the skies. However, Colorado company has now built Superpower, a 42-megawatt natural gas turbine designed to provide electricity to AI data centres, drawing on technology developed for Boom’s Symphony jet engine programme. Unlike many traditional turbines, Superpower is designed to maintain full generation capacity in extreme heat and does not require water, a growing concern in regions where data-centre cooling is putting pressure on local supplies. The company says 95% of components for the Symphony engine core prototype are already in production, with testing due to begin in 2026 at its Colorado facility.
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