Google’s Quantum AI campus will be on equal ground with both software and hardware. For hardware, the search engine behemoth plans to build its first quantum data center, quantum hardware search labs, and Google’s very own quantum processor chip fabrication facilities, wrote Erik Lucero, lead engineer for Google Quantum AI in a blog post.
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