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In this talk we investigate the sensitivity of future proton-proton colliders to a contact interaction of the form $1/\Lambda^2 (\bar b_L \gamma_\mu s_L)(\bar \mu_L \gamma^\mu \mu_L)$ as indicated by the long-standing rare $B$-decay anomalies. We include NLO QCD and electroweak effects and employ an optimized binning scheme, and carefully validate our background calculation against ATLAS and CMS data.We find that the FCC-hh with $40$ ab$^{-1}$ of luminosity is able to exclude scales $\Lambda$ up to 26 TeV at $95 \%$ CL, and discover $\Lambda$ up to 20 TeV. While this is not quite enough to exclude or discover the current best-fit value of $39$ TeV, this can in principle be achieved with more luminosity and/or higher energy, as we study quantitatively. Our analysis is conservative in that it assumes only a $\bar b s \mu \mu $ contact interaction.