Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday the state is investing $300 million to create a new Quantum Research and Innovation Hub at Stony Brook University, which she said would help make the university “a global powerhouse … recognized globally as the place where the smartest people want to be and the smartest students want to be educated.”

“We’re investing big time today,” Hochul said, speaking at the university’s Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology, or CEWIT.

The expenditure will allow the university to attract top-notch researchers and students, create jobs and help establish Long Island as a major center for quantum computing, university officials said.

The technology has been called a new kind of internet, with vastly more power, data security and speed than

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