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PsiQuantum Moreton Bay Quantum Facility
PsiQuantum Moreton Bay Quantum Facility is a tracked AI data center campus in Petrie, Queensland, Australia. PsiQuantum's Moreton Bay Central facility, on the repurposed site of the former Petrie Paper Mill north of Brisbane, is the anchor Asia-Pacific site for the company's plan to stand up the world's first utility-scale, fau
Under construction · PsiQuantum · owned · other · Petrie, Queensland, Australia
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Key facts
Lifecycle
Energized
Developer
Location
Grid
Land
Reported facts
Structured facts sourced from citations already on this record. Each fact traces to a source in the References section below.
- Significance
- World's first utility-scale fault-tolerant quantum computer
- Groundbreaking
- June 18, 2026
- Investment
- $940M AUD joint investment
- Cryogenics
- Linde Engineering cryoplant
- Technology
- Photonic quantum chips + optical fiber networking
- Scale
- Tens of thousands of photonic quantum chips
- Founded
- 2016 (Palo Alto, CA)
- Total funding
- $2.32B across 8 rounds
- Valuation
- $7B (Series E, Sept 2025)
- Operating temperature
- ~4 Kelvin (−269°C), warmer than most competing modalities
- Chipset
- Omega photonic quantum chipset, manufactured at GlobalFoundries
- Target scale
- Utility-scale, fault-tolerant, roadmap to 1M+ physical qubits
- Networking
- Standard telecom optical fiber; interconnects demonstrated to 250m
- Site heritage
- Former Petrie Paper Mill, repurposed for pre-existing industrial power and utility hookups
- Cryoplant delivery
- Linde Engineering cryoplant ordered late 2024, final delivery H2 2027
- Federal investment
- AUD $470M from Australian Commonwealth (equity + loan)
- State investment
- AUD $470M from Queensland Government (equity + loan)
- Target completion
- Operational quantum computer targeted by end of 2027
- Co-located anchors
- USC Moreton Bay campus and TAFE Centre of Excellence for advanced manufacturing
- Site announcement
- May 20, 2026 (site pivoted from Brisbane Airport)
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The deal
- operator
- PsiQuantum
Power
- Power source
- grid
- Grid operator
- other
- Interconnection
- Water
- Cooling is dominated by a large custom Linde Engineering cryoplant operating around 4 Kelvin for the photonic chips (helium refrigeration cycle), not a conventional water-cooled DC loop. No municipal cooling-water figure has been disclosed.
Why here
PsiQuantum Moreton Bay Quantum Facility sits on owned in Petrie, Queensland, Australia. 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.
Financial structure
- PsiQuantum Moreton Bay joint investment (AUD $940M)
- $615M press release
Sources
- PsiQuantum Breaks Ground in Australia on Site of World's First Utility-Scale Quantum Computer
- PsiQuantum Breaks Ground on Utility-Scale Photonic Hardware Hub at Moreton Bay Central
- PsiQuantum Raises $1 Billion
- PsiQuantum Unveils New Australian Site at Moreton Bay Central · PsiQuantum Newsroom
- PsiQuantum Breaks Ground in Australia on Site of World's First Utility-Scale Quantum Computer · BusinessWire
- PsiQuantum Breaks Ground on Australian Site for Utility-Scale Quantum Computer · HPCwire
- PsiQuantum shifts $940m quantum computer site from Brisbane Airport to Moreton Bay · Business News Australia
- PsiQuantum ditches Brisbane Airport plan in bid to break ground on supercomputer · Forbes Australia
- Newly elected Queensland government to review previously agreed funding for PsiQuantum quantum computer · DataCenterDynamics
- Investigation into the investment in PsiQuantum announced by the Australian and Queensland governments · Australian National Audit Office
- PsiQuantum Announces Omega, a Manufacturable Chipset for Photonic Quantum Computing · BusinessWire
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DEPLOY. (2026). PsiQuantum Moreton Bay Quantum Facility: AI data center campus record. Retrieved August 26, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/psiquantum-moreton-bay-quantum-facility
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