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# LUMI-Q consortium switches on Czechia's first quantum computer, built by IQM
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-09-23-lumi-q-vlq-quantum-computer-ostrava/
- Published: 2025-09-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-15T04:01:16.000Z
- Description: The 13-member LUMI-Q consortium inaugurated VLQ, a 24-qubit quantum computer built by Finland's IQM at IT4Innovations in Ostrava. EuroHPC JU and the consortium split the roughly EUR 5 million cost equally.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Compute and infrastructure, #news, #verified, #ai-drafted

Verified AI-drafted [IQM Quantum Computers press release, 23 September 2025](https://iqm.tech/press-releases/lumi-q-consortium-unveils-the-vlq-quantum-computer-for-the-czech-and-european-science-community/?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not establish that the system has yet run a workload beyond its inauguration demonstration.

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