Why your smartest people stop taking risks at work (and how to reverse it) Welcome to Fast Company Daily, our daily newsletter on LinkedIn, featuring a free article selected each day by our editors as well as a roundup of great advice on careers, hiring, innovation, and technology. Visit fastcompany.com for our top stories and breaking news. First time seeing this? Please subscribe. In a city not known for bureaucratic efficiency, the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park (IQMP), a 128-acre parcel being developed on the former site of the U.S. Steel plant on the South Side of Chicago, is a remarkable exception. Plans for the sprawling innovation campus—backed by $500 million in state funding—were announced in July 2024. Builders broke ground just over a year later, last September. Today, construction crews are busy digging and building—and one massive silver building is already nearing completion, a 65,000-square-foot warehouse that will house what could be the world’s first utility-scale fault-tolerant computer, belonging to the park’s anchor tenant, the quantum computing startup PsiQuantum. Since emerging from stealth in 2021, the Palo Alto-based company has racked up an impressive string of wins—progressing through multiple rounds of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) rigorous Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, and last November raising $1 billion in a funding round that valued the company at $7 billion. This May, PsiQuantum was one of nine companies involved in quantum computing to receive funding under the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. It got $100 million, and the government took a minority stake. But Chicago is where the rubber hits the road. Here, the company aims to build a massive machine that will leverage quantum mechanics to calculate problems too hard for today’s classical computers and simulate the complex dynamics of chemistry, biology, physics, and financial markets in ways