Germany is the headquarters of the first Quantum Data Center in Europe

Europe inaugurated its first Quantum Data Center, in collaboration with the American company IBM, in the German town of Ehmingen, near Stuttgart.

The opening ceremony was held on October 1st, with the participation of the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, with which the old continent takes an important step in the scientific area.

It was learned that the Quantum Data Center is made up of “two quantum systems, computers capable of performing operations in seconds that would take days on classical computing machines.”

According to the German chancellor, IBM would have selected the European country as the headquarters of the data center, taking into account the “good foundations that the country has in terms of research and development.”

It is appropriate to highlight Scholz’s words regarding the fact that Germany is the only country among the large economies of Europe that in recent years has allocated more than 3 % of its GDP to investment in research and development.

Since 2020, investment in quantum computing has reached 2 billion euros. The German chancellor detailed that some of the areas in which quantum computing will be applied are the computer, industrial and pharmaceutical sectors.

This data center will be accessible to “250 companies, research centers and government institutions and agencies,” in the search to position Germany as a “world leader in the use of quantum technologies.”

For his part, the director of IBM’s research area, Darío Gil, indicated that the opening of the first Quantum Data Center in Germany represents a further step in the “creation of a new industry based on new computing models.”

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Source: swissinfo

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