Studying-based tech agency Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) has teamed up with world hyperscaler Digital Realty to open a New York Metropolis-based information centre powered by quantum computing and synthetic intelligence.
The partnership between OQC and Digital Realty types an integral a part of a UK-US tech commerce partnership to coincide with US President Donald Trump’s State Go to to the UK this week.
Described as a world-first facility by each corporations, it’ll be based mostly at Digital Realty’s JFK10 facility on 111 eighth Avenue within the Chelsea space of Manhattan, New York.
The primary New York Metropolis information centre to sport a quantum pc, it’ll home the OCQ GENESIS quantum pc and NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips to energy quantum and AI purposes and “hybrid workloads” for industries corresponding to finance and safety.
Moreover, it’s hoped this facility will additional progress within the AI trade by enhancing how AI fashions are skilled and the way their underlying datasets are generated.
As a part of its collaboration with NVIDIA, OQC plans to make upcoming iterations of its quantum computing merchandise extra scalable by combining them with “accelerated computing” from the American chipmaker.
Jack Boyer, chair of OQC, stated in an announcement: “Working with Digital Realty and utilizing NVIDIA supercomputing right here in america, OQC demonstrates how the UK and US can lead collectively within the accountable deployment of frontier applied sciences for finance and safety.”
Science Minister Patrick Vallance estimated that, by 2045, quantum computing might inject £212b into Britain’s financial system and, on the similar time, generate job alternatives within the “tens of 1000’s”.
He added: “OQC’s launch of the primary quantum pc in New York Metropolis showcases British tech excellence and strengthens our transatlantic ties. And the trade’s first quantum-AI information centre will put British innovation on the coronary heart of next-gen computing – delivering pace, scale and safety to sort out issues right now’s tech is but to know.”
