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News articleYahoo Finance· January 16, 2026

Scenic City’s New Jailhouse Studios Planned as World’s First Quantum-Ready Sovereign Data, Processing, and AI Center and Creator Campus

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Scenic City’s New Jailhouse Studios Planned as World’s First Quantum-Ready Sovereign Data, Processing, and AI Center and Creator Campus Internationally recognized creators including A-List Celebrities from Chattanooga and Rodney ‘Darkchild’ Jerkins joins Optic8 and STEM — an Oracle partner — in establishing a nexus for…
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  • By deploying a quantum-safe network with EPB, the region is being positioned as a national model for secure, next-generation digital communications, delivering a practical, production-grade quantum key distribution network

    80% confidence
  • The approach with STEM and Oracle gives cities and creators the ability to run world-class, secure AI infrastructure locally, responsibly, and under their own control, flipping the assumption that AI and data would happen somewhere else

    80% confidence
  • Oracle is helping organizations around the world build secure, private clouds, and the STEM and Centroid model makes Oracle Cloud Infrastructure accessible in a decentralized, community-based framework bringing AI-native compute directly to cities and regions

    80% confidence
  • Chattanooga is a rare unicorn in the production landscape, ideally located between Atlanta and Nashville, and leveraging EPB and STEM technologies, these will become the world's first quantum-ready studios

    80% confidence
  • There's nothing like Jailhouse Studios, Chattanooga will be in the global spotlight for technology and entertainment, and this initiative allows creators, technologists, and students to build their futures in Chattanooga. Future feature films and major projects are already eyeing Jailhouse Studios for production

    80% confidence
  • The idea of Jailhouse Studios came as a solution to a need for workforce development and job creation for students local to Chattanooga, and while positioned for production work at the highest level, the original vision was born out of workforce development

    80% confidence

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