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No public disclosure of facility water use for classical compute co-located on site.","servingUtility":null,"acreage":null,"totalBuildingSqft":null,"streetAddress":"Barcelona Innovation District, Barcelona, Spain","notes":"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 quantum computers spanning analog fluxonium-based systems, digital gate-model machines, and co-located classical HPC. Users reach the machines through the SpeQtrum Quantum-as-a-Service platform, which brokers workloads to the appropriate back-end. The site is anchored financially by SETT, the Spanish state technology-transformation vehicle under the Ministry for Digital Transformation, alongside Axion Partners, Grow Venture Partners, Quantic Gang, and Catalan agencies Avancsa and ACCIO. CEO Dr. Marta P. Estarellas leads the company; qubit counts and specific processor generations installed at launch have not been publicly disclosed.","keyFacts":[{"label":"Opened","value":"November 6, 2025"},{"label":"Capacity","value":"Up to 10 quantum computers"},{"label":"Type","value":"Multimodal: analog + digital quantum + classical compute"},{"label":"Platform","value":"SpeQtrum Quantum-as-a-Service (QaaS)"},{"label":"Funder","value":"SETT (Spanish Society for Technological Transformation)"},{"label":"Founded","value":"2019 (spin-off of UB, BSC, IFAE)"},{"label":"Funding","value":"€20M from SETT (Jan 2025)"},{"label":"Co-founders","value":"José Ignacio Latorre, Victor Canivell"},{"label":"CEO","value":"Dr. Marta Estarellas"},{"label":"Technology","value":"Analog quantum computing (fluxonium-based)"},{"label":"Opening date","value":"November 6, 2025"},{"label":"Location","value":"Barcelona innovation district, Catalonia, Spain"},{"label":"System capacity","value":"Designed to host up to 10 quantum computers (analog + digital) plus classical HPC"},{"label":"Core technology","value":"Analog quantum chips based on fluxonium superconducting qubits"},{"label":"Access platform","value":"SpeQtrum Quantum-as-a-Service cloud"},{"label":"Anchor investor","value":"SETT (Sociedad Espanola para la Transformacion Tecnologica), Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation"},{"label":"SETT initial commitment","value":"1 million euros in first funding round under public-private partnership"},{"label":"Additional backers","value":"Axion Partners, Grow Venture Partners, Quantic Gang, Avancsa (Generalitat de Catalunya), ACCIO"},{"label":"Cooling regime","value":"Dilution-refrigerator cryogenics (millikelvin) for superconducting processors"},{"label":"Positioning","value":"First multimodal quantum data center in Europe"}],"reviewStatus":"reviewed","sources":[{"url":"https://qilimanjaro.tech/qilimanjaro-launches-worlds-first-multimodal-quantum-data-center-paving-the-way-for-the-computing-of-the-future/","name":"Qilimanjaro","title":"Qilimanjaro Launches World's First Multimodal Quantum Data Center"},{"url":"https://qilimanjaro.tech/company/","name":"Qilimanjaro","title":"Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech Company Page"},{"url":"https://w.media/qilimanjaro-opens-europes-first-multimodal-quantum-data-center-in-barcelona/","title":"Qilimanjaro opens Europe's first multimodal quantum data center in Barcelona","sourceName":"W.Media"},{"url":"https://quantumcomputingreport.com/qilimanjaro-launches-europes-first-multimodal-quantum-data-center-in-barcelona/","title":"Qilimanjaro Launches Europe's First Multimodal Quantum Data Center in Barcelona","sourceName":"Quantum Computing Report"},{"url":"https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/qilimanjaro-launches-multimodal-quantum-data-center-in-barcelona/","title":"Qilimanjaro Launches Multimodal Quantum Data Center in Barcelona","sourceName":"HPCwire"},{"url":"https://www.catalannews.com/tech-science/item/qilimanjaro-launches-worlds-first-multimodal-quantum-data-center-in-barcelona","title":"Qilimanjaro launches world's first multimodal Quantum Data Centre in Barcelona","sourceName":"Catalan News"},{"url":"https://capital-riesgo.es/en/articles/sett-reinforces-its-commitment-to-quantum-computing-through-its-support-for-the-spanish-company-qilimanjaro/","title":"SETT reinforces its commitment to quantum computing through its support for Qilimanjaro","sourceName":"Capital-Riesgo.es"},{"url":"https://quantumcircle.eu/spain-invests-qilimanjaro-quantum/","title":"Spain backs Qilimanjaro: 1M euros for quantum sovereignty","sourceName":"Quantum Circle"},{"url":"https://convergedigest.com/qilimanjaro-opens-europes-first-multimodal-quantum-data-center-in-barcelona/","title":"Qilimanjaro Opens Multimodal Quantum Data Center in Barcelona","sourceName":"Converge Digest"}],"reviewNote":null,"createdAt":"2026-08-25T16:44:33.549Z","updatedAt":"2026-08-28T14:22:23.889Z","location":{"id":"25dc6644-edb4-4b9a-b36b-5befff7a9d80","name":"Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain","slug":"barcelona-catalonia-spain","kind":"facility","parentLocationId":null,"region":"Catalonia","lat":41.3851,"lng":2.1734,"reviewStatus":"reviewed","aliases":["Barcelona Supercomputing Center","BSC","BSC-CNS","Centro Nacional de Supercomputación","Barcelona"],"collisionRisk":"high","reviewNote":"Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) — Spain's national supercomputing center, a public research facility located at Plaça Eusebi Güell 1-3, Barcelona, Catalonia. 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