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No water-use disclosure has been made.","servingUtility":null,"acreage":null,"totalBuildingSqft":null,"streetAddress":"Oxford Technology Park, Oxford, UK","notes":"Infleqtion's UK Quantum Innovation Centre and Manufacturing Hub at Oxford Technology Park is the company's largest UK investment to date and will triple its research, production, and systems-integration footprint after operating in the UK since 2014. T-SQUARED is the design-build contractor and used autonomous construction-layout robotics to print millimetric floor schematics on site; the centre is scheduled to open later in 2026. The facility manufactures Infleqtion's neutral-atom Sqale quantum computers, Tiqker optical atomic clocks, quantum RF sensing, and quantum inertial navigation hardware. In March 2026 Infleqtion delivered a 100-physical-qubit Sqale system to the National Quantum Computing Centre, the UK's only operational 100-qubit machine and the first to meet the UK government's 2025 target.","keyFacts":[{"label":"Construction","value":"Started 2026 by T-SQUARED"},{"label":"Capacity","value":"Triples UK operations"},{"label":"Location","value":"Oxford Technology Park"},{"label":"UK milestone","value":"100-qubit quantum computer at NQCC (March 2026)"},{"label":"Technology","value":"Neutral-atom (cesium) quantum computing platform (Sqale), plus optical atomic clocks, quantum RF sensing, quantum inertial navigation"},{"label":"General contractor","value":"T-SQUARED, using autonomous construction-layout robotics for on-floor schematic printing"},{"label":"Opening","value":"Design phase complete; construction underway, opening later in 2026"},{"label":"Capacity expansion","value":"Triples Infleqtion's UK research, manufacturing, and systems-integration footprint"},{"label":"Anchor milestone","value":"Delivered UK's only operational 100-physical-qubit quantum system to NQCC (March 2026); 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In December 2025, [Infleqtion](https://infleqtion.com/) (NYSE: INFQ) delivered the UK's only operational 100-physical-qubit quantum computing system to the NQCC using its neutral-atom [Sqale](/models/sqale) platform, achieving a critical milestone in the NQCC's technology roadmap and the UK's quantum strategy. The system, part of the NQCC's Quantum Computing Testbed Initiative, enables researchers and industry to benchmark performance, study error-correction at scale, and explore applications in materials, energy and optimisation. Infleqtion's 99.73% two-qubit gate fidelity and neutral-atom architecture make this one of the leading large-scale quantum deployments in an operational national facility. 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