The British OQC will invest 92 million in a quantum computing center in Barcelona The installation will create about 210 jobs over the next five years Barcelona scores a new victory in the European technology ecosystem. The British company Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), one of the regional benchmarks in quantum computing, will establish its new manufacturing and innovation center for this technology in the city. The project will represent a total investment of 92 million euros, and will be the most important quantum facility in Southern Europe. This is OQC's first location in continental Europe and, once operational, it will create approximately 210 highly qualified jobs. The executive director of the technology company, Gerald Mullally, celebrated the agreement as a "definitive step" for the company in the European industrial ecosystem. According to the executive, "Barcelona was the right place" to make a commitment of this magnitude. The Barcelona plant, which will concentrate both research and development activities and the manufacturing of the company's quantum computers, will assemble the "next generation of European quantum computing," according to Mullally. The center, named OQC Global Quantum Development & Manufacturing Center, will be operational in the second half of 2027. OQC, it should be recalled, already has a production and research center in the United Kingdom of a similar size to the one it will have in Barcelona, and which will continue to grow in parallel. The Catalan facility will be, according to Mullaly, a "critically important" installation. The talent of Barcelona According to Mullally, OQC had a series of proposals on the table to set up its factory. It considered, he recalls, cities on the level of Copenhagen, Paris and Munich, as well as various Spanish locations. However, the company has opted for Barcelona, mainly due to the quality of local talent. In