Forbes: The New Hybrid Cloud: Quantum Computing and Classical Computing?

> In some ways, visually, they’re the steampunk of modern computing architecture.

So true! I love the artful treatment these machines get on TV, like in Devs: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-devs-dreamy-silicon-valle... or in His Dark Materials: https://hisdarkmaterials.fandom.com/wiki/Cave

Very artful, focusing more on the dilution refridgerator than on whatever it's actually cooling; it's natural, of course, to focus on that as it's beautiful copper or gold-looking pipes and fitments that intrigue the imagination more than the square that is the D-Wave chip: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/d-wave-releases-its-...

...though that motherboard it's on, or whatever you'd call it, is certainly a bizarre aesthetic that also doesn't fit the norm we see inside servers today, nor the gaming computer aesthetic. It's nice to see the symmetries and compromises in a design that is constrained to look a certain way by the physical requirements of what it's doing.