Quantum City
5/17/202612 min
Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh's under-construction capital, is still a landscape of earthmovers and iron poles — but its Quantum Valley is already drawing scientists and engineers from across India and abroad. Young engineers have left metro jobs, postdoctoral researchers have returned from the US, and retired scientists are converging on this unfinished city to work on quantum computing — technology that promises to transform drug discovery, artificial intelligence and beyond. Built around nine theme-based precincts, Amaravati is Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu's grand vision. Quantum Valley is its economic anchor — and its earliest settlers are already betting their careers on it.
Nidhi Sharma reports and narrates.
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[intro theme] Hello and welcome to ET Deep Dive, where we bring you The Economic Times best reported stories in audio. [upbeat music] Today's episode is based on my report on how Amaravati, the newly anointed capital of Andhra Pradesh, is still under construction, but its Quantum Valley project is already luring deep tech startups and engineers to move in as the first settlers and work on the next frontier of technology. Quantum Valley project is the pivot around which the under-construction capital is already settling. It is Sunday, the seventeenth of May. I'm Nidhi Sharma, and you're listening to the Morning Brief. [upbeat music] [gentle music] It is a vast, barren land where earthmovers are crawling in deep foundation pits. Iron poles are poking out of construction sites, and welders in hard hats are hunched over at work.