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Qilimanjaro Quantum Data Center Barcelona

Qilimanjaro Quantum Data Center Barcelona is a tracked AI data center campus in Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Operated by Barcelona-based Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech (spun out in 2019 from BSC, IFAE and UB) and opened November 6, 2025, this is billed as Europe's first multimodal quantum data center, engineered to host up to ten qua

Energized · Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech · leased · other · Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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Qilimanjaro Quantum Data Center Barcelona capacity claims
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Key facts

energized

Lifecycle

0 GW

Energized

Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech

Developer

Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Location

other

Grid

leased

Land

Reported facts

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

Opened
November 6, 2025
Capacity
Up to 10 quantum computers
Type
Multimodal: analog + digital quantum + classical compute
Platform
SpeQtrum Quantum-as-a-Service (QaaS)
Funder
SETT (Spanish Society for Technological Transformation)
Founded
2019 (spin-off of UB, BSC, IFAE)
Funding
€20M from SETT (Jan 2025)
Co-founders
José Ignacio Latorre, Victor Canivell
CEO
Dr. Marta Estarellas
Technology
Analog quantum computing (fluxonium-based)
Opening date
November 6, 2025
Location
Barcelona innovation district, Catalonia, Spain
System capacity
Designed to host up to 10 quantum computers (analog + digital) plus classical HPC
Core technology
Analog quantum chips based on fluxonium superconducting qubits
Access platform
SpeQtrum Quantum-as-a-Service cloud
Anchor investor
SETT (Sociedad Espanola para la Transformacion Tecnologica), Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation
SETT initial commitment
1 million euros in first funding round under public-private partnership
Additional backers
Axion Partners, Grow Venture Partners, Quantic Gang, Avancsa (Generalitat de Catalunya), ACCIO
Cooling regime
Dilution-refrigerator cryogenics (millikelvin) for superconducting processors
Positioning
First multimodal quantum data center in Europe

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The deal

operator
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech

Power

Power source
grid
Grid operator
other
Interconnection
Water
Superconducting analog and digital quantum processors require dilution-refrigerator cryogenic cooling (millikelvin range via helium-3/helium-4 mixtures), not chilled-water heat rejection. No public disclosure of facility water use for classical compute co-located on site.

Why here

Qilimanjaro Quantum Data Center Barcelona sits on leased. 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

5c08aef2-8de9-4c3d-81e8-02cdc0086026 · 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 Qilimanjaro Quantum Data Center Barcelona?
Qilimanjaro Quantum Data Center Barcelona is an AI data center campus tracked on the DEPLOY registry, located in Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. DEPLOY records its capacity as a dated, sourced ledger: announced gigawatts versus actually energized gigawatts, never a press-release total.
Who is building Qilimanjaro Quantum Data Center Barcelona?
Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech is recorded as a party to Qilimanjaro Quantum Data Center Barcelona on the DEPLOY registry. The full party list, with each role, is on the record.
Is Qilimanjaro Quantum Data Center Barcelona operating yet?
As of the most recent verification on the DEPLOY registry, Qilimanjaro Quantum Data Center Barcelona 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 Qilimanjaro Quantum Data Center Barcelona?
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.

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DEPLOY. (2026). Qilimanjaro Quantum Data Center Barcelona: AI data center campus record. Retrieved September 27, 2026, from https://registry.deploy.report/datacenters/qilimanjaro-quantum-data-center-barcelona

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