en.Wedoany.com Reported - PsiQuantum, a US photonic hardware company, has officially commenced construction of a utility-scale quantum computing facility in Moreton Bay Central, Petrie, Queensland, Australia. The project is backed by a combined investment of A$940 million from the Australian federal government and the Queensland state government. Its site was relocated from the originally planned Brisbane Airport Industrial Park to the former Petrie Paper Mill site. By establishing its Asia-Pacific operations here, PsiQuantum leverages the existing large-scale industrial utility network, bypassing infrastructure bottlenecks to accelerate its deployment process.
The facility's master plan accommodates tens of thousands of dedicated silicon photonic chips, networked via standard telecommunications fiber optics. To cool the vast array of optical components, the initial construction phase prioritizes site preparation for a large custom industrial cryogenic system manufactured by Linde Engineering. Ordered in late 2024, this system will be one of the largest dedicated cryogenic cooling platforms ever built for quantum applications, with delivery scheduled for the second half of 2027. It will provide the deep cryogenic baseline required to stabilize and read out the quantum states of large-scale networked processing clusters.
The facility is located in a rapidly developing region slated to host multiple events for the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games. By being adjacent to the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) Moreton Bay campus and a future TAFE Centre of Excellence focused on advanced manufacturing, the project aims to cultivate a long-term, self-sustaining deep-tech talent pipeline. To support subsystem validation before the main facility is completed, PsiQuantum has also opened its Test and Validation Lab at Griffith University's Nathan campus in Brisbane, providing local engineers with a high-power cryogenic testing platform to optimize chip architectures before large-scale deployment at the Moreton Bay main center.
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