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IBM's Project Goldeneye prototype (the largest experimental-volume dilution refrigerator built) was relocated to the Poughkeepsie site to prototype cooling for future large-scale quantum systems.","servingUtility":"Central Hudson Gas & Electric","acreage":395,"totalBuildingSqft":511000,"streetAddress":"2070 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601","notes":"IBM's Poughkeepsie quantum data center is the largest single-site concentration of utility-scale quantum computers in the world, hosted within IBM's 395-acre South Road campus (roughly 45 buildings, over 4 million sqft in aggregate). The site operates more than a dozen >100-qubit systems accessed by 250+ IBM Quantum Network organizations via cloud, including the newest 156-qubit Heron R2 and R3 (ibm_pittsburgh) processors, each cooled to millikelvin temperatures by Bluefors dilution refrigerators. A 2024-announced 511,710 sqft build-out (a 467,450 sqft Quantum Computing Center plus utility and generator buildings) is being erected to house IBM Quantum Starling, the company's targeted large-scale fault-tolerant system by 2029; in August 2026 IBM demonstrated the first coupling of two cryogenic cells onsite as an early Starling hardware step.","keyFacts":[{"label":"Quantum processors","value":"IBM Quantum Heron (156-qubit), Eagle"},{"label":"Systems count","value":"12+ utility-scale quantum computers on-site"},{"label":"Expansion","value":"511,000 sqft addition completed Sept 2024"},{"label":"Network","value":"250+ organizations in IBM Quantum Network"},{"label":"Performance","value":"Heron: 16x improvement, 25x speed vs 2022 systems"},{"label":"Opened","value":"September 18, 2019"},{"label":"Systems onsite","value":"20+ quantum systems (largest fleet globally)"},{"label":"Processors","value":"Falcon → Heron (156-qubit)"},{"label":"Users","value":"600K+ users, 250+ partner organizations"},{"label":"Biden visit","value":"President Biden visited October 2022"},{"label":"Utility-scale systems","value":"More than a dozen >100-qubit quantum computers operational onsite (13 across IBM's global fleet as of early 2025, majority in Poughkeepsie)"},{"label":"Latest processor","value":"ibm_pittsburgh, first system powered by 156-qubit Heron R3 processor, hosted at Poughkeepsie"},{"label":"Heron R2","value":"156-qubit Heron R2 processor announced Nov 2024; 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