IBM has announced plans to open its first Europe-based quantum data centre to facilitate access to cutting-edge Quantum Computing for companies, research institutions and government agencies. The data centre is expected to be operational in 2024 with multiple IBM Quantum Computing systems, each with utility-scale quantum processors, i.e., those of more than 100 qubits.
The data centre will be located at IBM’s facility in Ehningen, Germany, and will serve as IBM Quantum’s European cloud region. Users in Europe and elsewhere in the world will be able to provide services at the data centre for their cloud-based Quantum Computing research and exploratory activity. The data centre is being designed to help clients continue to manage their European data regulation requirements, including processing all job data within EU borders. The facility will be IBM’s second quantum data centre and quantum cloud region, after Poughkeepsie, New York.
The IBM Quantum Network currently has more than 60 organisations across Europe accessing quantum hardware and software via the cloud, including Bosch; Bundeswehr University; Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale, including its technology subsidiary Euro-Information and Targobank; Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY); E.ON; the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft; Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC); and T-Systems.
These clients across Europe are exploring potential uses for quantum computing including material science, high-energy physics, energy transition, sustainability and financial applications.
