Source: Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune – Repeat after us: The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP), in development on 128 acres of the former U.S. Steel South Works site on Chicago’s South Side, will not be a collection of power-sucking, water-drinking data centers.
Repeat after us: Quantum computing is not threatening to take over humanity.
The emergent technology commonly known as artificial intelligence is demanding data centers to allow it to feed on everything humans have written down, including our editorials and this newspaper’s stories, and then being trained on all of that data to enable it to think for itself, kinda. Quantum computing draws on the strange laws of subatomic physics to perform certain calculations far faster than conventional computers ever could. It lives in a world of math, you might say, and inhabits an abstract landscape of qubits, algorithms and probabilities.
