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IBM Quantum System Two at Donostia International Physics Center
IBM Quantum System Two at Donostia International Physics Center is a tracked AI data center campus in Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain. Europe's first IBM Quantum System Two, inaugurated 14 October 2025 at the IBM-Euskadi Quantum Computational Center on the Ikerbasque Foundation campus in Donostia-San Sebastián, and only the second System Two deployment
Energized · IBM · university · Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain
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Key facts
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Reported facts
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- Significance
- Europe's first IBM Quantum System Two (Oct 2025)
- Location
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), San Sebastián
- Ecosystem
- Basque Country quantum strategy
- Quantum system
- IBM Quantum System Two (Europe's first; second outside the U.S. after RIKEN Kobe)
- Qubit count
- Two 156-qubit IBM Heron processors
- Cooling
- Dilution refrigerator, 10-20 millikelvin
- Operator
- Ikerbasque Foundation / BasQ, in partnership with IBM
- Inauguration
- 14 October 2025
- Program investment
- BasQ initiative budgeted at more than 120 million euros (2023 announcement)
- Partnership origin
- IBM-Ikerbasque agreement signed March 2023
- Research focus
- Materials science, high-energy physics, biomedicine, energy, AI (IKUR 2030)
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The deal
- operator
- IBM
Why here
IBM Quantum System Two at Donostia International Physics Center sits on university in Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain. This siting summary is composed from the record's held fields, not speculation; see methodology.
Sources
- IBM Inaugurates Europe's First Quantum System Two in Donostia
- Basque Government and IBM Inaugurate Europe's First IBM Quantum System Two in Donostia-San Sebastián · The Quantum Insider
- Basque Government and IBM Inaugurate Europe's First IBM Quantum System Two · Quantum Computing Report
- The Basque Government and IBM inaugurate the first IBM Quantum System Two in Europe, located in Donostia · Ikerbasque
- BasQ: Europe's first IBM Quantum System Two inaugurated in Donostia · Basque Quantum
- IBM unveils advanced quantum computer in Spain · Network World
- How the Basque Country became a leader in quantum computing · IBM Quantum Blog
- Presentation of the Basque Quantum project · Irekia (Basque Government)
- IBM Heron · Wikipedia
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DEPLOY. (2026). IBM Quantum System Two at Donostia International Physics Center: AI data center campus record. Retrieved August 26, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/ibm-quantum-system-two-donostia-spain
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