By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper.
New Mexico’s quantum startups no longer have to ship hardware across the country to test a single part. They can now do it in Albuquerque, where state officials and Roadrunner Venture Studios opened the Roadrunner Quantum Lab on Tuesday.
The 35,000-square-foot shared facility in Albuquerque’s Innovation District gives startups, industry partners and national labs access to a multi-node quantum network, dilution refrigerators, a quantum testbed and hands-on training, according to a release from the New Mexico Technology and Innovation Office.
Nearly a dozen tenants have signed on, including IonQ, QuEra Computing and Mesa Quantum. Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories will jointly run an on-site Quantum Demonstration Facility.
“The Roadrunner Quantum Lab is the infrastructure quantum founders have been asking for,” said Adam Hammer, CEO and co-founder of Roadrunner Venture Studios.
The state tapped Roadrunner just over a year ago to build and run the lab with $25 million in state support. New Mexico has poured more than $450 million into its broader quantum push, the release said.
BY THE NUMBERS
- 35,000: Square feet of converted space in the Innovation District
- $25 million: State support for the venture studio and lab
- $4 million: Strategic partnership with QuEra Computing for testbed infrastructure
- $450 million+: Total state investment in quantum, per the release
Learn more about the Roadrunner Quantum Lab:
- Address: 701 Spur St NE Ste C, Albuquerque, NM 87102
- Online: roadrunnerquantumlab.com