{"id":119789,"date":"2021-02-20T04:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T12:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/colorado-makes-a-bid-for-quantum-computing-hardware-plant-that-would-bring-more-than-700-jobs"},"modified":"2021-02-20T04:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T12:22:45","slug":"colorado-makes-a-bid-for-quantum-computing-hardware-plant-that-would-bring-more-than-700-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/colorado-makes-a-bid-for-quantum-computing-hardware-plant-that-would-bring-more-than-700-jobs","title":{"rendered":"Colorado makes a bid for quantum computing hardware plant that would bring more than 700 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/colorado-makes-a-bid-for-quantum-computing-hardware-plant-that-would-bring-more-than-700-jobs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Economic Development Commission normally doesn\u2019t throw its weight behind unproven startups, but it did so on Thursday, approving $2.9 million in state job growth incentive tax credits to try and land a manufacturing plant that will produce hardware for quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the broad applications and catalytic benefits that this company\u2019s technology could bring, retaining this company would help position Colorado as an industry leader in next-generation and quantum computing,\u201d Michelle Hadwiger, the deputy director of the Colorado Office of Economic Development &amp; International Trade, told commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>Project Quantum, the codename for the Denver-based startup, is looking to create up to 726 new full-time jobs in the state. Most of the positions would staff a new facility making components for quantum computers, an emerging technology expected to increase computing power and speed exponentially and transform the global economy as well as society as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Economic Development Commission normally doesn\u2019t throw its weight behind unproven startups, but it did so on Thursday, approving $2.9 million in state job growth incentive tax credits to try and land a manufacturing plant that will produce hardware for quantum computers. \u201cGiven the broad applications and catalytic benefits that this company\u2019s technology could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,39,1878,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-economics","category-employment","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}