Forbes October 21, 2024
Earlier this month, IBM announced it had opened a new quantum data center in Europe, the first to be built outside of the United States. Located in Ehningen, Germany, IBM’s European quantum data center is equipped with two utility-scale IBM quantum computers running 127-qubit IBM Eagle processors. This data center is located on premises shared by IBM Research and IBM Germany. It is managed by a local IBM team who are part of the worldwide IBM quantum team. For the first time, Europeans are able to run IBM quantum workloads on European utility-scale systems while being primarily supported by European resources.
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