Blake Scholl, founder of Boom Supersonic, stated that artificial intelligence will not eliminate humanity, but doomsayers have the opportunity to restrain the most significant human advancement since the steam engine, which must not be allowed to happen. The post did not specify particular bills, models, or companies.

Scholl's company aims for the supersonic passenger aircraft Overture, with its verification aircraft XB-1 expected to break the sound barrier in January 2025. Subsequently, they adapted the Symphony technology, which shares a lineage with the passenger aircraft, into a 42-megawatt natural gas turbine called Superpower, prioritizing supply for AI data centers. Crusoe has ordered 29 units, totaling approximately $1.25 billion, amounting to about 1.21 gigawatts, to support the aircraft development. He has publicly noted that the power grid cannot keep up with computing power and has communicated with OpenAI regarding power bottlenecks. The team emphasizes using software and models to compress aircraft design cycles. If safety regulations and export controls tighten around models and computing power, it will simultaneously affect his power customers and his own design tools. He defines doomsaying here as political and regulatory forces that may hinder deployment, rather than verifiable physical predictions.

In market mechanisms, the buyers are data centers needing power and aviation customers wanting supersonic travel, while the seller is Boom, which sells the same thermal machinery to two demand curves; the driving force is to frame alignment debates as constraints on industrial revolution-level tools. Funds flow from turbine orders to aircraft projects. Beneficiaries are computing power vendors needing rapid installations, while those advocating for slowing down frontier deployments face pressure, as do the timelines for passenger aircraft that still need to pass airworthiness and emissions approvals.

Source: Public Information