DEPLOYDatabase

Data center campus

Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility

Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility is a tracked AI data center campus in Palaiseau, Île-de-France, France. Pasqal's corporate headquarters and primary R&D facility on the Paris-Saclay campus in Palaiseau (2 Avenue Augustin Fresnel), a 2019 spinout of the Institut d'Optique co-founded by 2022 Physics Nobel laureate Alain Aspec

Energized · Pasqal · owned · other · Palaiseau, Île-de-France, France

Track Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility

Capacity: announced vs energized

Announced
not recorded
Contracted
not recorded
Under construction
not recorded
Energized
not recorded
Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility capacity claims
Source

Key facts

energized

Lifecycle

0 GW

Energized

Pasqal

Developer

Palaiseau, Île-de-France, France

Location

other

Grid

owned

Land

Reported facts

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

Technology
Neutral-atom quantum computing
Flagship system
Orion 100-qubit
Italy deployment
SOL 140+ qubits at CINECA (Italy's first neutral-atom QC)
Saudi Arabia
200-qubit at Aramco Dhahran (Saudi's first QC, Nov 2025)
Cloud access
100 hours free access to Orion for researchers
Founded
2019 (spin-off from Institut d'Optique Paris-Saclay)
Total funding
€340M+
Co-founders
Georges-Olivier Reymond, Alain Aspect, Christophe Jurczak
CEO
Wasiq Bokhari
IPO
Pending SPAC merger with Bleichroeder (Nasdaq: BBCQ)
Flagship
Orion 100-qubit + 200-qubit system at Aramco
Address
2 Avenue Augustin Fresnel, 91120 Palaiseau (Paris-Saclay)
Cooling
No dilution refrigerator; neutral-atom Rydberg QPUs run in ultra-high-vacuum chambers with laser optical tweezers
Power draw (Orion)
Three-phase 380V, ~3 kW steady-state, 10 kW peak per Orion-class QPU
Site role
Corporate HQ + primary R&D lab; hosts an Orion Gamma (up to 100 atoms) at Massy
Origin
Spinout from Institut d'Optique Graduate School (Paris-Saclay), founded 2019
Series B
€100M ($108M) January 2023, led by Temasek
Cumulative funding
≈€140M through Series B
Nobel co-founder
Alain Aspect (2022 Nobel Prize in Physics) is a scientific co-founder
European program
Supplies 100-qubit QPU to HPCQS EuroHPC pilot at GENCI/TGCC and Jülich
US HQ
Separate US headquarters announced in Illinois (Chicago quantum park), 2024

On the data center map

Every tracked data center is on this map, centered on Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility. Pan or zoom out to see how close rivals are building.

Free to use on your site, with a link back to DEPLOY.

The deal

operator
Pasqal

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
other
Interconnection
Water
Neutral-atom Rydberg architecture; no dilution refrigerator and no significant process-water cooling. QPUs operate at room temperature inside ultra-high-vacuum chambers, with heat load dominated by lasers and control electronics rejected via building HVAC.

Why here

Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility sits on owned in Palaiseau, Île-de-France, France. 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

8185fd8a-e7c1-4fd7-b911-e5cbcf64903a · Tracked with DEPLOY's verified-vs-claimed methodology. Every term is defined in the glossary. Announced numbers are claims, not built capacity.

Common questions

What is Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility?
Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Palaiseau, Île-de-France, France. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility?
Pasqal is recorded as a party to Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility is energized and operating. DEPLOY tracks the lifecycle from announced through energized, so the current state reflects sourced evidence, not the original announcement.
How verified is the data on Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility?
A human editor has reviewed this record for the indexed registry. Every capacity figure is an append-only, dated claim resolved to the highest-evidence tier; superseded claims are kept but excluded from the current view.

Deploy Watch

Track Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility on Deploy.

We notify you when energized capacity, lifecycle state, or a new dated capacity claim changes against primary-source evidence, not when the developer issues a press release.

Cite this page

DEPLOY. (2026). Pasqal Paris-Saclay Quantum Facility: AI data center campus record. Retrieved August 26, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/pasqal-paris-saclay-quantum-facility

More citation formats (MLA, Chicago, BibTeX) →
CC BY 4.0

The verified data on this page is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license: reuse the facts freely, with attribution to DEPLOY (deploy.report). The prose, design, and any imagery are not included and keep their own rights.

Machine-readable surfaces