A quantum Computing Startup from Australia Will Join the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park at the Form US Steel South, in a deal Announced Monday.
Sydney-Based Dirq Signed A Letter of Intert to Join The State’s Quantum Campus, which is Expect to Break Ground This Year. Dirq Will Join On-Ramp, The IQMP’s Program for Companies Who Will Become Residents of the Campus. Members of the program will work out of a Shared Facility, as the Campus is built out.
The Company Said It Expects to Begin Operating Out of the On-Ramp Facility in Late 2025, or Early 2026.
Dirq Said Its Mission is to Design, Build and Deploy the World’s Most Cost-Effective Quantum Computers. IT WILL The Park’s Anchor Tenant Psiquantum, Who’s Investing Billions to Build the Nation’s First Commercilantly-Usseful Quantum Computer.
Dirq was recently One of 16 Companies Awarded A Contract for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Program for Testing Quantum Computing prototypes. And in March, the Company and Fermilab were awarded the quandarum project by the US Department of Energy Office of Science. The Project Aims to Create an ultra-Precise Quantum sensor to explore and research Dark Matter, Accounting to Dirq.
Dirq recently set up opeations in silicon Valley in California and Boston, Dirq Ceo and Founder Andrew Dzurak Said.
“The IQMP Represents an Exciting Opportunity that Can Support Our US Growth Strategy,” Dzurak Said in a News Release.
The Company Said Its Chicago Headcount is Still Being Determined, But the Company Will Add Two to Four Employees in Its First Year. Chicago Will Be A Focus Point for Dirq’s Research and Development, The Company Said.
IT DECLINED TO DISCLOSE AN ESTATIVE OF ITS Potential Investment at the Park, Citting the Early Phase of Development and Confidentiality.
The Company Said in a Statement: “Dirq is quiethly confident regarding the futures strategy supporting the company’s mission to deliver commercily, cost-effective Quantum Computers. Over the Coming Months, Dirq Expects This Promisitt TRAJECTORY TO INCLUDE INCLUDE INCLUDE INCLUDE INVESTMENT Jobs, Alliances and Partnerships With Key Stakeholders. ”
Harley Johnson, Executive Director and CEO of IQMP, Said Leadership Has Been “Encoured by the Incredible Interest” from Companies Around the Globe, Who Want to EstaBish a Presence at the Quantum Campus. It was announed in december 2024 that IBM will partner with the state to create a new national quantum center in chicago, marking it the first fortune 500 company to join the Park.
The Quantum Campus was announced by Gov. JB Pritzker, Alongside Other State and Local Leaders, in July 2024.
The 128-ACRE Campus Will Transform A Large Swath of the Form US Steel Souths Facility, WHICH HAS SAT VACANT ITS CLUSE IN 1992. There’s Been Several Attempts to Redevelop the Long-CHOUBLED site-Ranging from Homes to a New Solo Cup. Factory – But none have stack. Lingering Environmental Concerns have been a barrier to development at the site and continue to make Residents Wary of the Quantum Campus.
The site is estimated to have a $ 20 Billion Economic Impact over the next decade, and it is expensive to create thusands in quantum computing and related Fields. But it is a ben with Concern from some community Members and NeighBorhood Groups, Who Are Calling for A Community Benites Agreement to Ensure Residents Get Jobs with Living Wages and Aren’t Displaced by the New Development.
This Story has been updated to correctly reflect andrew dzurak’s name.
