IBM (NYSE: IBM) is planning to open its first Europe-based quantum data center facility at its facility in Ehningen, Germany.
The Armonk-headquartered company”™s data center is expected to be operational in 2024 with multiple IBM quantum computing systems, each with utility scale quantum processors. The data center will serve as IBM Quantum’s European cloud region and is being designed to help clients continue to manage their European data regulation requirements, including processing all job data within EU borders.
The IBM Quantum Network currently has more than 60 organizations 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); the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN); Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft; Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC); and T-Systems. The facility will be IBM’s second quantum data center and quantum cloud region ”“ the first center is based in Poughkeepsie.
“Europe has some of the world’s most advanced users of quantum computers, and interest is only accelerating with the era of utility scale quantum processors,” said IBM Fellow and Vice President of IBM Quantum Jay Gambetta. “The planned quantum data center and associated cloud region will give European users a new option as they seek to tap the power
