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Officials are calling Stony Brook University\u2019s new $300M Quantum Computing Center Long Island\u2019s next moonshot.<\/p>\n
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After Long Island played a major role in the Moon landing<\/a> so many decades ago, officials here touted a new state investment in Stony Brook University research as potentially putting it at the early stages of a second scientific leap that could be the next moonshot.<\/p>\n Stony Brook University and New York State took a very literal quantum leap forward Sept. 17 as Gov. Kathy Hochul announced $300 million to establish a center on campus focusing on research and development of high-speed computing and communications. Hochul and a wide range of officials said funds would be used to establish the Quantum Research and Innovation Hub at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know that to provide our state and nation with a brighter future, we need to invest today,\u201d Hochul said. \u201cAnd that is what New York is committed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n The governor, who took the stage as Billy Joel\u2019s \u201cNew York State of Mind\u201d played, said she hoped this would help \u201ccement SUNY\u2019s role as a global powerhouse\u201d where the \u201cmoon shot is to be recognized globally.\u201d<\/p>\n As Hochul addressed a \u201croom full of true believers,\u201d she also credited Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine, Suffolk County Legislator Steven Englebright, SUNY Chancellor John King Jr. as well as Stony Brook leadership and researchers for steady advocacy.<\/p>\n Officials described the technology that lets quantum computers process information differently than conventional technology in ways that could help develop medications and otherwise improve operations.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople will come back and look at this as a time when state government partners with academic institutions, but also private sector organizations\u201d to advance technology, Hochul said. \u201cThe ideas that are incubated here are commercialized and create new jobs here in New York State and Long Island. That\u2019s my vision of how these investments will benefit the people here and of our great state.\u201d<\/p>\n Just six weeks after taking the helm, Stony Brook University President Andrea Goldsmith touted this \u201cmajor scientific investment\u201d as an \u201cextraordinary\u201d step as part of a shift that could \u201ctransform science and technology in the United States and around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n She called quantum a \u201cfoundational technology\u201d that could transform information science, semi-conductors, AI, energy efficiency, fintech, and mathematics.\u00a0<\/p>\n Goldsmith also called the investment a \u201cbold affirmation of the power of collaboration with the state of New York and SUNY.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are at the dawn of the quantum information age,\u201d she said, comparing it to the introduction of cell phones. \u201cToday, sending quantum information anywhere in the world seems magical. Yet we have created that magic here at Stony Brook.\u201d<\/p>\n Goldsmith said the school\u2019s researchers already built the largest quantum network in the country at Stony Brook, while noting that \u201cgreat research requires great partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n SUNY Chancellor John King Jr. said this investment came \u201cat a time when the federal government and, sadly, much of the nation, are turning their backs on groundbreaking research.\u201d<\/p>\n The program, he said, would leverage Stony Brook\u2019s existing strengths, successes and resources, developing computing potentially at \u201corders of magnitude faster than anything we\u2019ve seen before\u201d to make \u201cnext generation computers, Internet, economic and information security.\u201d<\/p>\n SUNY Board Trustee Cary Staller said this \u201chistoric announcement\u201d would support work of \u201csuperb researchers\u201d at Stonybrook.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cToday is a signal that we\u2019re meeting ambitious goals, placing us at the forefront of groundbreaking research and development of next-generation technologies,\u201d Staller continued.<\/p>\n Stony Brook said it would take roughly three years to build a 150,000-square-foot facility, expected to open in 2029, to house the SUNY Stony Brook Quantum Institute.<\/p>\n The school said it would house New York State\u2019s first \u201chybrid Quantum Data Center at a university\u201d and the SUNY Stony Brook Quantum Education Consortium.<\/p>\n Stony Brook officials said this would bring together \u201cresearch, computing, and workforce training to solve society\u2019s most complex challenges and build a faster, smarter, and more secure internet.\u201d<\/p>\n Hochul said the SUNY system is going through a kind of golden age, attracting more applications and interest from researchers and professors.<\/p>\n \u201cThe momentum we\u2019re experiencing here is nothing short of extraordinary,\u201d Hochul said. \u201cWe\u2019re not done. We are not resting on our laurels. We never say, \u2018Mission accomplished\u2019 for anything.\u201d<\/p>\n In a day that was filled with superlatives that would prove either prescient or hyperbole, Staller looked back at the past and to the future at once.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I was a kid growing up on Long Island, aerospace powered the economy. We all took great pride that the lunar landing module was designed and built right here on Long Island,\u201d he said in a moment that those in the room clearly hoped would be part of a bigger success. \u201cWe are planting the seeds for the next industry that will power Long Island for generations to come and change our world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Read more Stony Brook University coverage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Governor](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/54794434764_39d6d274fd_z.jpg\")
Governor Kathy Hochul announced funding the $300 million quantum computing center at Stony Brook University on Sept. 17.Courtesy the Governor\u2019s office<\/p>\n