TIDAL PWR, BTQ Develop Blueprint for Quantum - Ready Data Centers

Texas data center developer TIDAL PWR, which says it has seven projects totaling 9.87 GW in its artificial intelligence (AI) campus development pipeline and designs its campuses to combine utility service and behind-the-meter generation, is collaborating with quantum technology company BTQ Technologies to determine how power and data center infrastructure could eventually accommodate quantum computing systems alongside conventional AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure. The companies, which unveiled the collaboration on July 20, told POWER in August that they expect an initial 90-day workstream to produce a planning blueprint for data center developers, facilities and power engineers, security teams, and procurement teams. While the effort remains pre-customer and pre-deployment, the blueprint is intended to help developers account for quantum computing in the long-lead decisions that determine where large computing campuses can be built, how they will be powered, and whether planned infrastructure can accommodate future generations of computing equipment. Conventional data centers typically run AI and HPC workloads on…