PsiQuantum Scaling up its Queensland Operations
Opens Asia-Pacific HQ in Brisbane’s City Centre & Reveals New Renderings of Quantum
Computing Site at Brisbane Airport.
PsiQuantum’s quantum computing site adjacent to Brisbane Airport.
Brisbane, Australia – PsiQuantum today announced several updates across its operations in Queensland as the company scales up its operations heading into 2025. The company opened its new Asia-Pacific HQ in Brisbane’s City Centre with PsiQuantum’s Co-Founder and Chief Architect Terry Rudolph sharing the company’s latest technical progress and its alignment with the operations on the ground in Brisbane.
For decades, Queensland has produced much of the foundational research and development of quantum technologies, with the Sunshine State serving as an incubator for the world’s best minds in quantum computing. Australians can be found leading quantum computing companies and university efforts all over the world. After nearly 20 years developing the technical platform further and building PsiQuantum, that technology now returns to Queensland to scale-up and build the world’s first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer. Commercialising this technology will add to the growing spotlight on Brisbane as a hub for innovation and for new technologies to flourish.
“Queensland has been home to the world’s brightest in quantum technologies—we developed a
foundation which has underpinned many world-leading quantum efforts.
This project brings that technology and talent back to Queensland to scale-up and unlock quantum computing at scale.
As a Queenslander who has worked in this field for almost my whole career, this project makes me incredibly proud and excited about the future.
This is just the beginning of a very exciting chapter in Brisbane and we’re thrilled to open our Asia-Pacific HQ here in the city centre. We’re going to see all sorts of tech innovation crowd into Queensland to be part of what’s happening here.”
“I grew up in Cairns, and while few Australians might think of that as a great leg up into the world of quantum computing, it absolutely was. The down-to-earth, can-do approach of Far North Queensland has, in many ways, given me an unfair advantage on my journey to build the world’s first quantum computer.
The central ideas that have powered PsiQuantum to this point came out of research that our own Geoff Pryde, Jeremy O’Brien and so many others led over the last 30 years in Queensland.
I am proud that Queensland is once again leading the way with the world’s first utility-scale quantum computer.”
PsiQuantum’s new Asia-Pacific HQ, located in Brisbane’s city centre, provides ample space for the company’s expanding operations. The PsiQuantum Australia team is currently distributed across Brisbane, Sydney, and Canberra, with the Brisbane team set to grow rapidly in 2025. Open roles will span a number of areas including construction, workforce developed and industry partnerships, quantum applications and solutions. In addition to the Brisbane CBD office, PsiQuantum’s Test & Characterisation Lab at Griffith University is set to open in early 2025. This facility will house a system with enough cryogenic cooling power to characterise the modules that will go into the full-scale quantum computer. It will be overseen by PsiQuantum Australia’s Chief Technical Director and Professor (on leave) at Griffith University Geoff Pryde, and Principal Scientist and Griffith University alumnus Dr. Dylan Saunders.
PsiQuantum and the Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) have also signed a Heads of Agreement, securing the site for the development of the facility that will house the utility-scale quantum computer on Brisbane Airport land, which allows the next steps of the development plans to progress. New renderings of the Brisbane Airport site showcase three main buildings that will comprise the quantum computing site:
Main office building: The PsiQuantum team at the Brisbane Airport site will include cryogenic, mechanical, and electrical engineers, physicists, technicians, and a range of tech professionals.
Quantum computing operations buildings: Hundreds of cryogenic cabinets, equipped with silicon photonic chips and integrated systems, will be networked together using standard fiber optics.
Cryoplant: A large cryoplant, comparable to the one at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California, will cool the cryogenic cabinets down to 4K. While extremely cold, this temperature is around 100x hotter than the requirements of other approaches to building quantum computers, enabling PsiQuantum’s project to scale.
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The lab space at Griffith’s Nathan Campus will be renovated with PsiQuantum expecting to move into the new space in early 2025. Read here.
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Partnerships will focus on developing the quantum workforce and educational programs in and around quantum computing. Read here.