IBM Opens Europe’s First Quantum Data Center in Germany

IBM expanded its utility-scale fleet of quantum computers in Ehningen, Germany on Tuesday with a ribbon cutting ceremony featuring German Chancellor Olaf Sholz and senior European government officials.

The quantum data center is IBM's first outside the U.S. and will soon feature a new Heron-based system, offering a significant increase in performance over 2022 IBM Quantum systems.

"The road from punch cards to quantum computing has been a long one," German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told an audience in Ehningen, Germany Tuesday, referencing the early data processing system technology that is a distant precursor to the powerful systems that will be deployed in Europe’s first IBM Quantum data center.

The Eagle-based system will be joined by the new Heron-based system, which was first introduced by IBM late last year, and is the company’s most performant chip yet, offering up to a 16-fold increase in performance and 25-fold increase in speed over previous IBM quantum computers from just two years ago. The Heron processor was also recently deployed in IBM’s Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York.

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