The first quantum computer has been installed in New York.

# The first quantum computer has been installed in New York

The British startup Oxford Quantum Circuits has installed the first quantum computer in New York at a data center in Manhattan. Bloomberg reports this.

The system is located in the Google building in Chelsea at the Digital Realty Trust site. The technology is offered to clients of the site as a tool for faster and more efficient deployment of AI programs.

Traditional computers store information in what are called bits, which can be either a one or a zero. Quantum devices use qubits — they can be represented as zero, one, or a mixture of both states simultaneously. This allows the computer to consider many possibilities at once and to solve problems that classical systems struggle with.

However, qubits are extremely fragile and susceptible to errors. Some advanced technologies require a supercooled and quiet environment.

The CEO of the startup, Gerald Mulally, described the system in Manhattan as "one of the most powerful quantum computers in the world," as it "is capable of performing thousands of quantum operations before errors begin to dominate."

The entrepreneur intends to upgrade the computer to a more powerful system by 2028. The company has also installed quantum complexes in data centers in Tokyo (Japan) and Reading (United Kingdom).

Malalli stated that the company will spend "tens of millions of dollars" over the next three to five years on the purchase of Nvidia chips.

Clients will be able to access the new platform as early as 2025, with full commercial operations planned for 2026.

Recall that in February 2025, Microsoft announced its first chip for quantum computing - Majorana 1. The company "created a completely new state of matter" - topological.

In March, a research group from the University of Science and Technology of China developed a prototype of a superconducting quantum computer with 105 qubits and 182 connectors.