On this episode of the Shared Everything podcast from VAST, Nicole talks with Chris Powell, Quantum Information Science Lead at SAIC, about what “data” actually means in a quantum system. We move past storage and into representation, where problems have to be mapped into mathematical forms like Hamiltonian matrices and expressed directly into quantum hardware with no traditional memory or registers. We also delve into how hybrid architectures tie CPUs, GPUs, and QPUs together, why classical data infrastructure becomes more important rather than less so, and how quantum computing shifts the model from retrieving answers to shaping systems where answers emerge from probabilities.