Diraq installs a working silicon spin quantum computer in an Equinix data centre

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A quantum computer has moved out of the lab and into a commercial data centre. Quantum Computing Report says Diraq has installed a working 8 qubit silicon spin machine in Equinix's colocation centre in Sydney

The system uses under 20 kilowatts and takes up about 16 square metres of floor space. Its qubits are made on standard silicon MOS foundry lines, the same kind of manufacturing used for ordinary computer chips

Within 12 months Diraq plans to put a 256 qubit processor in the same fridge, to show that capacity can grow by swapping chips rather than adding infrastructure. Its projection for 2031 is over two million qubits on one die at about 300 kilowatts, though these are targets only

The test will measure uptime, gate fidelity stability and control drift despite real world interference such as cooling water swings and floor vibration. No results have been published yet, and Diraq is in Stage C of DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative

Running a quantum computer in a normal data centre is a big step towards practical use, because labs are carefully controlled environments. Using standard chip foundries could make silicon spin qubits much easier to scale. The results from this test will be worth watching closely

Do you think silicon spin qubits will win the quantum race? And how soon could quantum computers be common in data centres?

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