What's a qubit?
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A massive swath of South Side land that was home to one of the world’s largest steel mills for more than a century will soon be transformed into a multibillion-dollar quantum computing campus, local leaders said this week.
The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a research and development campus anchored by Silicon Valley tech startup PsiQuantum, is coming to the former U.S. Steel South Works site in South Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson confirmed to Block Club Wednesday.
And to answer the question in the thread title:
California-based PsiQuantum plans to build the first “utility-scale, fault-tolerant” quantum computer in the country on the lakefront campus, company officials said.
PsiQuantum aims to build a quantum computer with 1 million “qubits” — the basic unit of quantum computing, like a bit is to traditional computing.
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Great backstory about the Chicago South Works.
Chicago’s Temple of Steel: South Works since 1882
In my childhood on summer days, when my mother took us to the shore of Lake Michigan at the 57th Street Beach, we could easily see the billowing plumes of smoke bending in the breeze above smokestacks five kilometers to the south-southeast. An incurious lad, except where baseball and fighter planes were concerned, I probably never thought to ask my mother about the fires beneath the smokestacks. I’ve grown more inquisitive since then, and on a sunny October afternoon I stopped by Steelworkers Park in South Chicago to see what was left of what, half a century ago, I had ignored. It all began about two billion years ago.
https://springs-rcc.org/chicagos-temple-of-steel-south-works-since-1882/
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