01/05/2025 What I Read Last Week
#DigitalInfrastructure news: Microsoft, $17B Atlanta campus, Cedar Rapids, Quantum Computing
Weekly Edition of curated news about Digital Infrastructure
[Link] Microsoft is investing $80 billion in data centers. Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote a blog post about how Microsoft is looking at a golden opportunity for American technology and economic competitiveness. The company plans to invest about $80 billion in 2025 in developing data centers to train artificial intelligence models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications.
[Link] $17B 'Project Sail': 13-building data center campus proposed for Atlanta. Each of the data halls on the site will be 378,000 sq ft, giving it an overall footprint of 4.9 million sq ft.
[Link] The Cedar Rapids Gazette has a nice article on the booming Southwest Growth Area in Cedar Rapids. BAE Systems, Google, QTS, and $1 billion in property taxes generated over 20 years.
Q U A N T U M
[Link] IonQ and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have announced a significant breakthrough in quantum computing. Their collaborative research has developed a novel hybrid quantum algorithm based on the Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution (QITE) principle that dramatically improves quantum computational efficiency.
[Link] Rigetti Computing announced the public launch of its 84-qubit Ankaa-3 system. Rigetti also celebrates major two-qubit gate fidelity milestones with Ankaa-3: successfully halving error rates in 2024 to achieve a median 99.0% iSWAP gate fidelity, as well as demonstrating 99.5% median fidelity fSim gates.
[Link] The NASA SpaceNews YouTube channel released a nice video on the 105-quibit Zuchongzhi 3.0 quantum processor and other recent advancements in quantum computing.
🤯 [Link] Quantum teleportation coexisting with classical communications in optical fiber. Research from Optica Publishing Group with results that show the feasibility of advanced quantum and classical network applications operating within a unified fiber infrastructure.
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