The emerging quantum computing infrastructure boom and what it signals for the future 🏗️
A new report by JLL highlights a looming “quantum land grab”, as investors and governments rush to secure real-estate and infrastructure for quantum computing deployment.
Unlike traditional data-centres, quantum computing infrastructure requires ultra-cold environments, specialized shielding, error-mitigation hardware and adjacent classical computing resources. As the report notes, “hybrid centres” (classical + quantum) will likely dominate the next decade.
🔍 Key insights:
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Commercial quantum computing could emerge by 2030, creating demand for physical sites and data-centre real-estate designed for quantum workloads.
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This infrastructure trend opens new avenues for startup-ecosystems: edge-quantum nodes, colocation facilities, quantum cooling & cryogenics, sensor-fusion systems.
💡 Quick thought experiment:
Imagine an app for field agriculture (remember your interest in robotics/agritech) that uses a quantum node at the edge to optimise logistic flows in real-time. The hardware might be months away, but designing the software scaffold now gives you first-mover advantage.