German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends an event to inaugurate IBM's quantum data centre at the IBM Campus in Ehningen, southern Germany, on October 1, 2024. The centre -- located in Ehningen, near Stuttgart, and IBM's first outside the United States -- will allow dozens of European companies and research institutes to gain access to the US firm's quantum systems. (Photo by SILAS STEIN / AFP) (Photo by SILAS STEIN/AFP via Getty Images)