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“We have Duality, which is the nation’s first quantum startup
accelerator,” Pritzker said. “We have the second-highest number
of Fortune 500 companies, the customers for quantum, of any
region in the nation.”
Pritzker said key quantum computing stakeholders are
collaborating at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park
in Chicago.
“Fortune 500 businesses and startups, government agencies,
world-renowned researchers and scientists are coming together to
do foundational work on quantum hardware and software
applications,” Pritzker said.
State Sen. Sue Rezin, R-Morris, said quantum is incredibly
important, but elected officials must be careful.
“It all depends on how the deals are negotiated,” Rezin told The
Center Square. “We want to be conscious about the costs,
especially on the ratepayers, on the taxpayers, very important.”
Illinois has given tens of millions of dollars in state tax
incentives to quantum corporations.
Brian DeMarco is professor of physics and Director of the
Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center at
the University of Illinois' Grainger College of Engineering. He
also serves as director and chief technology officer at Illinois
Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago.
DeMarco said quantum computers can solve problems that would
take too long on any other supercomputer that could be built.
“Some of those types of problems are the types of problems
related to balancing the energy grid and predicting what
capacity is needed in what parts of the state,” DeMarco told The
Center Square.
Rezin agreed that the quantum movement has arrived in Illinois.
“It is fair to say that, once it is built out, that many of the
problems that we’ve been trying to solve in the past for decades
might be able to be solved with quantum computing,” Rezin
explained.
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