Christian Weedbrook is the chief executive of Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. He is looking to build the world’s first large-scale quantum computing data centre by 2029. Photo by Handout / Xanadu Quantum Technologies
Christian Weedbrook had already sketched a blueprint in his mind of a data centre where anyone, from anywhere in the world, could access quantum computing through the cloud when he launched Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. nearly a decade ago.
Today, the chief executive of Toronto-headquartered Xanadu is charting the path to that vision: to build the world’s first large-scale quantum computing data centre by 2029 to solve complex problems for real-life use cases.
“From the outside, it will look like a normal data centre… in a nondescript building” equipped with h