A version of this article first appeared in the CNBC Property Play newsletter with Diana Olick. Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for the real estate investor, from individuals to venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors and large public companies. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Just as artificial intelligence turned the data center sector into a gold mine, quantum computing is already ramping up to its own real estate revolution. Quantum computing uses quantum mechanics to solve problems beyond the ability of the most powerful classical computers. Until now, these super computers have mostly lived at academic or government facilities, because they have had limited practical applications. That’s also why investment in quantum has lagged AI by about a decade. But quantum computing is suddenly now advancing quickly and becoming commercially viable. As a result, it now needs its own real estate. A new report from JLL says significant real estate implications are “on the horizon.””There’s going to be a defined point in time where we’ve reached commercialization of the technology, where there’s commercial utility, and at that point we see a significant ramp taking place to the scale of like what we saw with artificial intelligence,” said Andrew Batson, head of data center research at JLL. “We see the private sector play really married to the point at which commercialization of the product takes place,” he said. That point could be just five years away, according to analysts.Parts of the IBM Quantum System Two are displayed at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center on June 6, 2025 in Yorktown Heights, New York.Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty ImagesEnormous potentialLast year, quantum companies brought in less than $750 million in revenue, and startups focused on quantum technology collectively attracted about $2 billion in funding, according to the JLL re …
