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Quantum Leap in Chicago

1440 Daily Digest

Updated: Jul 29, 2024



The country's first utility-scale quantum computer is slated to be built on the site of a former steel mill in Chicago's South Side, Mayor Brandon Johnson said yesterday. The computer is part of a broader $9B quantum research campus projected to potentially bring $20B in investment and 175,000 jobs over the coming decades.


Quantum computers can surpass even the most powerful supercomputers available today, improving encryption and expediting development of new drugs (see more, w/video). Silicon Valley startup PsiQuantum's facility will use photons—particles of light—to perform calculations, an approach not yet commercially proven. This comes in contrast to techniques relying on ultracold atoms or superconducting circuits used in existing quantum computers by Google, IBM, and others.


The 300,000-square-foot facility will become the anchor tenant of the proposed Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a new vision for the abandoned steel mill there (see history). The project, one of the earliest public-private partnerships for quantum computing in the US, will see

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