D-Wave Burnaby Quantum Center of Excellence

Capacity: announced vs energized

Key facts

Reported facts

Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.

Significance

First to demonstrate quantum supremacy on useful real-world problem (March 2025)

Technology

Quantum annealing

Ticker

Nasdaq: QBTS

Multi-site

Also at USC ISI + Davidson Technologies Huntsville

Sold to FZJ

First HPC center to own a D-Wave Advantage system

Founded

1999 (first commercial quantum computing company)

Employees

~382

Market cap

~$6.5B (2025)

Flagship system

Advantage2 (4,400+ qubits GA, quantum annealing)

CHIPS Act

$100M funding (May 2026)

Acquisition

Quantum Circuits ($550M)

Qubit count

Advantage2 system: 4,400+ superconducting flux qubits with 40,000+ couplers on the Zephyr topology

Predecessor system

Advantage system: 5,000+ qubits, 15-way connectivity (Pegasus topology), online since 2020

System power draw

Advantage2 QPU stack draws ~12.5 kW total (same as Advantage despite performance gains)

Cryogenics

Dilution refrigerators cool the QPU to ~10-15 millikelvin; no process water

General availability

Advantage2 declared generally available on May 20, 2025 (QBTS stock rose ~26%)

Quantum supremacy paper

Beyond-Classical Computation in Quantum Simulation (Science, March 12, 2025): ~20 min vs ~1M years on Frontier

Fabrication partner

QPU wafers fabricated by SkyWater Technology (Bloomington, MN) under a ~decade-long partnership

Cloud delivery

Leap quantum cloud service: 99.9% uptime, sub-second response, available in 40+ countries

First HPC customer

Forschungszentrum Julich (JUNIQ) purchased an Advantage system Feb 13, 2025 with Advantage2 upgrade path

HQ transition

Corporate HQ + U.S. R&D relocating to Boca Raton, FL by end of 2026; Burnaby remains the quantum engineering + manufacturing center

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The deal

operator

D-Wave Quantum

Power

Power source

grid

Grid operator

other

Interconnection

Water

Quantum annealing QPUs are cooled with dilution refrigerators (helium-3/helium-4 mixture) to roughly 10-15 mK, not water. Building HVAC uses municipal water; no disclosed process-water draw.

Why here

D-Wave Burnaby Quantum Center of Excellence sits on owned in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. It connects to the other grid, draws on grid power. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.

Sources

• D-Wave Quantum SEC Filing 2025 ↗
• D-Wave's Burnaby Quantum Centre Anchors Canada's Push ↗
• QBTS - D-Wave Quantum Inc. Stock Price ↗
• D-Wave Announces General Availability of Advantage2 Quantum Computer ↗ · D-Wave Newsroom
• Beyond Classical: D-Wave First to Demonstrate Quantum Supremacy on Useful, Real-World Problem ↗ · D-Wave Newsroom
• Forschungszentrum Julich Purchases D-Wave Quantum Computer ↗ · D-Wave Newsroom
• Forschungszentrum Julich strengthens quantum research with purchase of D-Wave annealing quantum computer ↗ · Forschungszentrum Julich
• D-Wave Stakes Claim on Quantum Supremacy For Real-World Problem ↗ · The Quantum Insider
• D-Wave Launches Advantage2 Quantum System with 4,400+ Qubits and Higher Coherence ↗ · Quantum Computing Report
• Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave Quantum moving B.C.-based headquarters to U.S. ↗ · Business in Vancouver
• Fabricating qubits for D-Wave Quantum ↗ · UBC Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute
• D-Wave Systems ↗ · Wikipedia

02da246c-eb25-4e41-a3f5-5ec0cc7c2566 · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.