The Energy Department launches $215 million push to make quantum computers scientifically useful by 2028

# The U.S. is betting $215 million that quantum computers will finally do something useful by 2028 The government is funding a competition to build the first quantum computers that can actually solve real scientific problems, rather than just sitting in labs as experiments. Today's quantum computers are temperamental machines that need extreme cooling and are easily disrupted, but if this push succeeds, researchers could use them within the next few years to tackle complex challenges in medicine, engineering, and other fields much faster than regular computers can.