Australia is taking a major step toward commercial quantum computing with plans to deploy a quantum computer inside an operational commercial data centre. Quantum computing company Diraq and digital infrastructure company Equinix announced that the system will be installed at an Equinix facility in Sydney.
The deployment is expected to be Australia’s first quantum computer operating inside a commercial data centre. Diraq says the system will use an eight-qubit silicon chip, with its cooling and control systems designed to fit alongside conventional data-centre infrastructure.
