Bill Gates Just Purchased an Enormous Amount of Land to Build His Own “Smart City”
“Bill Gates has started laying out his plans forcreating a “smart city” in Phoenix, Arizona, about 45 minutes west of downtown. Located in the far west valley, the piece of land is comprised of approximately 24,800 acres. Belmont, the proposed name for the city, will embrace and push forward innovation and technology. One of Gates’ investment firms has already solidified the plans by devoting $80 million to the project.
Belmont Partners, an Arizona-based real-estate group, said in a press release that “Belmont will create a forward-thinking community with a communication and infrastructure spine that embraces cutting-edge technology, designed around high-speed digital networks, data centers, new manufacturing technologies and distribution models, autonomous vehicles and autonomous logistics hubs.”…”
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https://futurism.com/bill-gates-smart-city-arizona/
Huh. I’d move there, but my wife hates the desert.
Bill Gates stop stealing other people’s ideas and passing it off as yours, and gaining fame off of it. Only opportunist and losers does that. Is that how you got rich by stealing from others?
How can a city that will depend on an overloaded aquifer be considered smart?
gene patrick Huh? No one is stealing ideas here. He’s taking ideas and making them a reality. What have you done lately? And I’d HARDLY call Bill Gates a loser…
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David Westebbe Rainwater harvesting. Cloud and fog harvesting. Vertical farms that use less than 5% of traditional farming methods and supply all the food for the community (scroll through this ‘The Future Is Pretty Rad –
http://www.TheFutureIsPrettyRad.com feed and you’ll run across a few of the technologies that may be employed). That’s why this is a design for a ‘future’ smart city, not based on ‘present’ paradigms. And I suspect that’s why he’s doing it in the desert. If a self-sustainable city can be created in the middle of the desert, then it can be created anywhere.
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I hope they have Adobe huts a good non energy consumption balance
Wasim Muklashy It is arid there. It is not a sustainable environment for large numbers of mammals.
Wasim Muklashy Excellent response. A mass example of water efficiency, recycling, harvesting and infiltration can be achieved if we get out if our own way. Looks like Gates is opening the door of possibility again.
Shane Burckle Thanks. Some have the ability to ‘see’ some don’t. And that’s OK…evolution needs those that don’t as well…
Wasim Muklashy Darwin would shake his head at building cities in the desert.
Wasim Muklashy I know for fact that someone in the Caribbean has that same idea and there’s a place in that island call Belmont, the same name he wants to call his city. There also the fact that he visited the island recently on his boat which is proof that he stole the idea.
gene patrick On an island, you can desalinate sea water using solar. Not so in the middle of a giant desert.
gene patrick #1, no you don’t. show proof or sources. there is no fucking island with self driving cars and a smart city built on it. #2, who gives a shit. last I checked no one owns exclusive rights on buying land and building cities. #3, I know 4 Michaels and 3 Bobs. Damn thieves…
David Westebbe What are you talking about?
Wasim Muklashy Not because the smart city doesn’t exist,doesn’t mean the vision don’t exist. It does, and he took it.Buying land and building cities is not the issue, stealing the idea is. Nobody cares how many thieves you know, the thieve at hand is the issue.And I choose not to swear so you could look like the hothead that you are.I also give proof, the land he visited and the neighborhood he named it after.
gene patrick yeah ok
gene patrick the proposed city makes less sense than the original. The real one was built where water is available.
David Westebbe Dude. Ok with the water comments. I understand…water is BIG issue, yes. But HOW are you going to build a city for 146,000 people near a major metropolitan area in the middle of the ocean? Do you understand how incredibly expensive and labor intensive it would be to 1. get the materials there to build that, 2. have nearby access to infrastructure and services to maintain a city for 146,000 people? You’re talking about literally building a new COUNTRY now far away from all the pieces you need to build a new country, and far away from all the resources it takes to do that. Hell, it’d be cheaper to pipe in water from the ocean and desalinate in on site than it would to try to build an entire city and infrastructure in the middle of the ocean. One day? Perhaps. But no…not today. If you research what he’s doing, it’s very much a beta test for ideas like you’re talking about. But I can’t think of anything less practical than to beta test a city for 146,000 people in the middle of the ocean. Furthermore, there are other factors at play here, perhaps, for example, including looking forward at investing in and scaling up new emerging technologies rather than just what exists now, like this for example: https://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2017/11/15/meet-zero-mass-water-whose-solar-panels-pull-drinking-water-from-the-air/#4ec39362370e
David Westebbe O.K.
Wasim Muklashy You are more credulous than I am.
David Westebbe says the guy that believes it’s feasible to build a city from scratch for 146,000 people in the middle of the ocean…