There’s a new quantum facility in town.

A 13,000-square-foot incubator funded by state incentives debuted in Boulder on Wednesday. It’s the latest addition geared at building up the infrastructure of the Mountain West’s recently-designated quantum tech hub.

The incubator at BioMed Realty’s Flatiron Park at 5555 Central Ave. will prioritize taking quantum research and turning them into commercial products. 

Quantum computing is a growing field of technology developing super-fast computers designed to solve problems most classic computers would take years to compute, but still are not readily available at scale.

The incubator will house quantum startups and offer expensive scientific equipment for the budding companies, as the cost of quantum computers is a huge barrier of entry hindering researchers’ ideas from getting into the marketplace.

It is being led by the University of Colorado Boulder. The school is working in partnership with Colorado State University, the Colorado School of Mines and the tech hub nonprofit Elevate Quantum.

CU Boulder will provide leadership and staff resources for the launch of the incubator.

“This facility accelerates discoveries from the lab to market, strengthening Colorado’s leadership in this dynamic field,” said CU Boulder Chancellor Justin Schwartz in a news release.

President Joe Biden named the region a quantum tech hub based on its research institutions and clusters of quantum companies as the U.S. races against China in becoming the superpower to provide these super-fast computers to the rest of the world. The Mountain West hub is primarily concentrated in the Denver and Boulder metro region, though also has a presence in New Mexico and Wyoming.

The designation opened Colorado to an infusion of federal and state money last year totaling more than $125 million.

The tech hub is investing in several incubators, labs and facilities devoted to quantum computing. Work began last year to construct the Quantum COmmons in Arvada, a business campus similar to many in Silicon Valley, and there’s a National Quantum Nanofab facility at CU Boulder under development.

“Colorado’s new quantum facilities will transform discoveries into real-world applications, creating thousands of jobs and cementing our state as a quantum leader,” Eve Lieberman, executive director of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, said in a release.