Supersonic aircraft company applying jet engine design to data center power
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“The guys at Boom want to use what they designed for jets to power data centers.”
Source→“I was a software engineer by training. We spent time at early Amazon. I founded an apps company that got acquired by Groupon.”
Source→“Last year, XB1 became the first independently developed jet to break the sound barrier, more than a decade after founding the company.”
Source→“Jeff Bezos passed on our seed round at Boom. And then he wrote the 2015 Amazon shareholder letter about how there's certain things that only big companies can do. And he cited airliners as one of these.”
Source→“Guys are using jet engines like Boom to generate power for these data centers.”
Source→“Take Blake Scholl, the CEO of Boom Supersonic. Blake spent his early career working on ad tech at companies like Amazon and Groupon before deciding to work on commercializing supersonic flight.”
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