{"id":218491,"date":"2025-07-22T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/chicagos-1-billion-quantum-computer-to-start-operating-in-2028"},"modified":"2025-07-22T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:05:10","slug":"chicagos-1-billion-quantum-computer-to-start-operating-in-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/chicagos-1-billion-quantum-computer-to-start-operating-in-2028","title":{"rendered":"Chicago\u2019s $1 Billion Quantum Computer to Start Operating in 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chicagos-1-billion-quantum-computer-to-start-operating-in-2028.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The startup behind Chicago\u2019s more than $1 billion quantum computing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-07-25\/pritzker-secures-1-billion-quantum-tech-win-before-convention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">deal<\/a> said operations are expected to start in three years, a win for Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who backed the investment and is widely seen as a potential presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1794335D: US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">PsiQuantum Corp.<\/a> will start construction at the state\u2019s new quantum and microelectronics park in the South Side of Chicago later this year, Chief Executive Officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jeremy-o-brien-39482631\/\" title=\"Click to view webpage.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">Jeremy O\u2019Brien<\/a> said in an interview at Bloomberg\u2019s Chicago office. The supercomputer \u2014 one of two utility-scale, fault-tolerant machines the company is building globally \u2014 is expected to be online in 2028, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The startup behind Chicago\u2019s more than $1 billion quantum computing deal said operations are expected to start in three years, a win for Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who backed the investment and is widely seen as a potential presidential candidate. PsiQuantum Corp. will start construction at the state\u2019s new quantum and microelectronics park in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218491","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}