Insider Brief
- Diraq and Equinix plan to install the first silicon spin quantum computer in a shared commercial data center in Sydney in October 2026.
- The eight-qubit system will fit alongside conventional servers, consume less than 20 kilowatts and support upgrades through chip replacement without changes to the surrounding infrastructure.
- The companies will test the system’s integration with classical computing and AI infrastructure before offering demonstrations to potential partners and customers.
PRESS RELEASE — Diraq and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world’s digital infrastructure company®, today announced plans to deploy a Diraq quantum computer at an Equinix data center in Sydney, Australia. The deployment will mark the world’s first silicon spin quantum computer to operate in a shared commercial data center, bringing quantum computing one step closer to large-scale commercial adoption.
The installed quantum computer will feature a silicon chip containing eight quantum bits (qubits), with all cryogenic cooling and control electronics self-contained. The complete system fits within Equinix’s existing data center alongside standard servers, requiring minimal integration and drawing less than 20kW of power. Scaling to higher qubit counts requires only a chip replacement, with no changes to the surrounding infrastructure, making the system easily upgradable.
“Quantum computers are about to become as essential to data centers and computing infrastructure as data servers, CPUs and GPUs,” said Andrew Dzurak, Diraq Founder and CEO. “The data center is where quantum computing goes mainstream, and that shift starts now. It’s a first, and the milestone is in the simplicity itself. Diraq’s quantum computers integrate into operational data centers like any other rack. That’s the advantage of Diraq’s silicon spin qubits: as we scale to millions of qubits, our system is deployable anywhere in the world, right next to the AI systems that are reshaping the global economy.”
The collaboration is designed to:
- Test real-world performance: Evaluate how Diraq’s quantum system operates in a live commercial data center with open network connectivity, including remote monitoring and secure integration with the classical CPUs and GPUs that power today’s computing.
- Chart the path to commercial scale: Operating alongside the cloud and AI systems already in Equinix’s data center, Diraq will explore how quantum and AI can work together as both technologies scale, laying the groundwork for practical, hybrid quantum-classical computing.
- Begin partner and customer conversations: Once testing is complete, Diraq will give industry partners and customers the opportunity to see quantum computing in action and explore potential applications in an Equinix facility that already meets enterprise data sovereignty, security and compliance requirements.
Jarrod Nink, Managing Director, Australia, Equinix, said: “Quantum computing’s future depends not only on breakthroughs in hardware, but on proving how these systems can operate within the digital infrastructure enterprises rely on every day. Our collaboration with Diraq will demonstrate how quantum computing can be securely deployed alongside AI, cloud and high-performance computing environments. By combining Diraq’s pioneering silicon quantum technology with Equinix’s global footprint, we’re helping to define a new benchmark for quantum deployment while supporting Australia’s ambition to become a leading global hub for quantum innovation.”
“We believe the future of computing will be quantum-enhanced and AI-enabled,” said Diraq Founder and CEO Andrew Dzurak. “Rather than replacing today’s systems, quantum computers will work alongside AI and classical infrastructure to solve problems that are currently out of reach. By bringing quantum into a commercial data center, we’re helping pave the way for that future.”
Diraq’s qubits are made the same way as the chips in today’s phones and laptops, leveraging existing semiconductor foundries to manufacture and clearing a path to millions of qubits on one chip. Because they’re so small, Diraq can pack far more qubits into less space on a single chip than other quantum technologies: the resulting quantum computing system is small enough that many of Diraq’s systems can operate inside a standard data center, beside the classical compute infrastructure it works with. Importantly, Diraq sees data centers hosting not just one quantum computer, but entire fleets of them.
At utility scale, the point where a quantum computer delivers more value than it costs to run, quantum computers will solve problems beyond the reach of today’s most powerful machines, modelling molecules and chemical reactions to accelerate drug discovery, materials design and energy solutions. They won’t replace today’s computers but work alongside them, in a hybrid future where quantum, AI and classical systems each tackle what they do best.
Installation work at Equinix’s Sydney data center is on track to be completed in October 2026.
