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I always told myself if I ever became a "tech billionaire" I'd buy out a random abandoned town somewhere, setup high speed internet, and turn a ghost town into
by giancarlostoro 1y ago
I always told myself if I ever became a "tech billionaire" I'd buy out a random abandoned town somewhere, setup high speed internet, and turn a ghost town into a high tech town, cause why not? You could easily become mayor and approve some reasonable projects. Sell extremely affordable housing for the buck (close to actual cost).
I do often wonder if it might be worthwhile to shove a bunch of server farms into a few abandoned mines, if you setup the appropriate infrastructure in said mines to protect your data centers.
- thepryz 1y agoI always thought Detroit would have been the ideal location for Amazon to build HQ2 for that reason.
- paxys 1y agoYou can build it, sure, but why would anyone want to live there?
- giancarlostoro 1y agoDisconnected from a major city, fiber internet, affordable, why would anyone want to move to Orlando it's all swamp lands? I remember that being Walt Disneys response when a reporter (who was correct) accused him of buying up all the land in Florida.
- danlugo92 1y ago> affordable You'd get Waco'ed or Ruby Ridge'ed.
- paxys 1y ago97% of the USA is already disconnected from a major city and affordable. And now with Starlink broadband internet is accessible as well. Yet there is no rush to migrate to rural areas - quite the opposite. People want to live in cities and suburbs.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoSure, but most people don't want to live far from a city with limited resources like access to doctors, and such.
- voxadam 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordlandia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordlandia