[Symmetry]

I found Boom's pivot much less confusing after this article.

[leetrout]

For those like me that are missing context:

https://qz.com/boom-supersonic-jet-startup-ai-data-center-po...

[Aurornis]

Boom’s pivot to trying to build turbines for data centers wasn’t surprising when data center deployments started using turbines. Either their CEO saw one of the headlines or their investors forwarded it over and it became their new talking point.

What is interesting is how many people saw the Boom announcement and came to believe that Boom was a pioneer of this idea. They’re actually a me-too that won’t have anything ready for a long time, if they can even pull it off at all.

[quickthrowman]

> What is interesting is how many people saw the Boom announcement and came to believe that Boom was a pioneer of this idea. They’re actually a me-too that won’t have anything ready for a long time, if they can even pull it off at all.

My first thought when seeing that article is “I can buy one of these right now from Siemens or GE, and I could’ve ordered one at any time in the last 50 years.”

[Symmetry]

I had been under the mistaken impression that the turbines in airplanes were more different from the turbines in power plants than they actually are.

[torginus]

What I didn't get is afair Boom doesn't build engines, aren't they using some old 50s-60s fighter jet engines?