Residents organize around the quantum computing megadevelopment planned for Chicago’s southeast side
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What till they hear about how our government subsidizes corn that has no use and how much water that uses hi… excuse me, what? can you link me to this new, fresh hellscape… i went to school with a guy who once told me “please quit sending me documentaries… i feel compelled to stop eating whatever it is that it is covering and now I’m just hungry all the time.” and he was dead serious. I actually don't think it's hard to imagine that large-scale quantum computers might need a lot of water. Some architectures will require huge cryoplants. Maybe also cooling systems for decoders. The people against this happen are a mix of the naive and nimbys. It's been an economically distressed area of the city since the 1990s, this development is already promised a couple hundred new jobs and has six corporate tenants plus the federal government. I maybe get some of the concern on energy and water usage but I think it's overblown. If you see interviews with the people against this development they say they want instead a grocery store and school ( the problem is the city already provided a grocery store and it closed down after a few years) This development offers incredibly high paying jobs, new housing, a new hospital and school. It creates lots of high paying and possibly union jobs in the area that can actually support all the Wishes the community actually wants. Wait, do you believe that any resident in that economically distressed area right now is going to get one of those incredibly high-paying jobs in a quantum computing laboratory? Two of them might be hired as janitors. The jobs are not going to people who live in the neighborhood. I'm also confused why you're deriding the request for a grocery store and a school as a somehow unreasonable desire for land use. I live in that area and currently going to school. After my Bachelor's I'll be doing my Masters at UChicago and will apply when the opportunity to do so is available. I've pivoted towards quantum after doing a summer program at UChicago and found it far more interesting than bioengineering, which was my first major before fhsnging. And construction, electrician, Payroll, HR, logistics, and many other jobs. And you have no idea if the people working the research jobs will not live there. I am not deriding the request for a school or grocery store I actually want that for that community, but they cannot exist without some reason to be there. Like a new major employer, which this will be. Again there was a Walmart in that Community but it closed. A major reason for hospital to invest in that area was because of the fact this development went through and think about those jobs that will exist? And the land hasn't had developed since the 90s. So why not use it for a job creator for the city and state. I was actually excited for this to happen. What are their complaints about it? This has been in the works for about a year now. I think people are tired of these mega computing infrastructure being built in their home town while they struggle to get by. They just want their basic needs to be met and they feel like the gov is only meeting the needs of big corporate Well if they knew well enough they’d know that AI datacenters are the problem not quantum innovation which is actually trying to make things more efficient They can meet their needs by getting a job at the facility. Not everyone has a ged or high school diploma, let alone a PhD in quantum mechanics I support them, why won’t the developers enter into a CBA to address the community’s concerns? They’re just asking not to be ignored. agreements like that are a classic NIMBY move. they're always "just asking questions" or "just airing concerns". the campus IS a community benefit. people like this are why nothing can get built in this country. I disagree, it’s a poor neighborhood that has a history of being overlooked and underdeveloped. This is not a NIMBY situation. This is a situation of residents advocating for themselves. If they don’t have the full story, then the job is on the developers to bring them into the conversation and get them on board. It’s always listen to the community, until the community doesn’t just roll over and accept whatever we call “progress.” They get to decide what progress means for their neighborhood, too. Neoliberal? Dont they mean fairweather Republicans? https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-way-to-cool-quantum-computers-could-change-how-theyre-built/ Isn't Quantum Computing supposed to be more energy efficient than existing equivalents of similar compute power?? Create your account and connect with a world of communities.