Reuters documentary spotlights Diraq’s push for scalable quantum computing

A new Reuters documentary from ACUMEN explores how Diraq is building silicon-based quantum computers designed to be compact, lower-cost and deployable in existing data centers. The film arrives as Diraq advances a commercial-scale roadmap, including a 2026 deployment inside an Australian Equinix data center and a 2031 target for utility-scale systems.

Why it matters: - Diraq is trying to make quantum computing practical at industrial scale, not just possible in the lab. - The company’s approach could lower cost, shrink hardware footprints and make quantum systems easier to deploy inside existing computing infrastructure. - If that works, quantum computing could move closer to real-world uses in medicine, materials, climate modeling and logistics.

What happened: - ACUMEN produced a new documentary for Reuters’ Global Sustainability & Transformation Insights initiative on Diraq’s path to commercial-scale quantum computing. - The film follows Diraq as the company designs quantum computers for the computing infrastructure businesses already use. - Reuters’ GSTI series invited Diraq to represent the quantum computing and technology segment. - The GSTI initiative includes 35 documentaries across industries including technology, hospitality, healthcare, fashion and construction.

The details: - Diraq deployed a quantum computer inside an Equinix data center in Australia in 2026. - Diraq says the system was the world’s first silicon spin quantum computer to run inside a shared commercial data center. - The quantum computer fits alongside standard servers and draws less than 20kW of power. - Diraq’s architecture is designed to increase qubit capacity through chip upgrades while keeping the surrounding infrastructure and footprint largely unchanged. - The deployment is meant to show how the system performs alongside classical compute and AI, and to let customers see quantum computing in today’s computing environment. - Andrew Dzurak, Diraq’s CEO and founder, said quantum computing only becomes real if systems are built at scale and made accessible to people solving major problems. - Diraq says its technology turns transistors into qubits using proprietary silicon spin qubits built with the same semiconductor manufacturing processes used for phones and laptops. - The company says that approach allows far more qubits on a single chip without custom manufacturing. - In 2025, Diraq reported the first qubits made entirely in a commercial foundry on standard 300mm wafers, with results published in Nature. - Diraq’s roadmap targets utility scale by 2031, with more than two million physical qubits on a single chip. - Utility scale is the point at which a quantum computer can solve problems that deliver more value than the machine costs to build and run. - Diraq is one of six companies worldwide selected by DARPA for the final stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. - Diraq is the only company in that stage pursuing a silicon CMOS spin-qubit architecture. - Diraq has more than 130 team members globally and operations in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Chicago, Albuquerque, Sydney and Melbourne. - The company was founded in Australia and is backed by more than 20 years of research led by Dzurak.

Between the lines: - The documentary is also a signal of how seriously the market is starting to treat quantum scaling, not just quantum science. - Diraq’s bet is that semiconductor manufacturing, rather than custom-built hardware, is the most practical path to wide deployment. - DARPA’s benchmark selection gives Diraq external validation at a moment when the field is racing toward utility-scale systems.

What’s next: - Diraq will use the Equinix deployment to test performance in a shared commercial data center environment. - The company will continue pursuing chip-based qubit scaling toward its 2031 utility-scale target. - The documentary will serve as a public showcase for Diraq’s commercial strategy and technology roadmap.

The bottom line: - Diraq is trying to prove quantum computing can scale like semiconductors do: smaller, cheaper and more deployable.