Crusoe cancels Boom turbine deal, leaving Abilene power mix unclear

Crusoe has dropped its planned purchase of 29 stationary gas turbines from Boom Supersonic, a deal valued at $1.25 billion and intended for data-center projects including Abilene, Texas. The first deliveries had been expected in 2027, but the order is canceled, not a deployment that has begun.

A large order for Boom’s new power business

Boom Supersonic is developing the Overture passenger jet. It had positioned its Superpower unit to sell natural-gas turbines for data centers, using technology adapted from its aircraft-propulsion work. Crusoe was the business’s lead initial customer, making the abandoned order significant for Boom as well as for Crusoe’s project planning.

Boom CEO Blake Scholl said other customers were in the pipeline, but did not name them. That indicates Boom is still pursuing the stationary-power business; it does not establish that those prospects will replace Crusoe’s order or when any turbines might be delivered. The available reporting gives no reason for the cancellation, so it would be a stretch to attribute it to a particular change in financing, demand or energy strategy.

What the cancellation means for Abilene

Crusoe describes its Abilene site as a 900-megawatt AI campus that will support Microsoft AI infrastructure. Crusoe’s Texas buildout has also been described as a phased combination of grid power, demand response and behind-the-meter resources. That broader mix offers context for how the company approaches power, but it is not a stated replacement for the Boom turbines at Abilene.

The distinction matters because a campus’s overall power strategy does not reveal which sources will meet a particular project’s needs, or how arrangements change when a planned supply disappears. The reporting does not specify how the canceled order affects Abilene’s power plan. What is clear is that a planned turbine purchase has fallen away; the campus’s exact power arrangements remain unstated.