Ehningen, in southern Germany, looks like any other small European town. Located less than 30 km from Stuttgart, it has a library, a church, and a couple of restaurants, and its streets are filled with children playing football.No one would expect that a few kilometres from the residential area lies an industrial hub, home to one of the most groundbreaking technological revolutions: the first International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) quantum computing data centre in Europe.
On October 1st, the US company officially launched its first quantum data centre in Europe – and only its second one worldwide – in Ehningen.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, along with CEOs, experts, and journalists, attended the ceremony for what was presented as a groundbreaking step towards the future of technology.
Quantum computers are extremely powerful computers that are expected to revolutionise our future.While regular computers use bits that can be either 0 or 1, quantum computers use qubits.