Bill Gates Is Building His Own City Of Tomorrow In Arizona, A Smart Metropolis

As the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates is already a household name in the tech industry. Since passing on control of his company to the next generation, the man named the richest person on Earth multiple times has never stopped trying to improve the world. Now, it’s been revealed that Gates might be thinking of building a Smart City in the state of Arizona with the sole purpose of advancing technology.

The money being funneled into creating this Smart City is worth $80 million and it’s actually coming from an investment firm called Cascade Investment LLC, the Arizona Republic reported. The publication was able to uncover these details by looking into property records, which indicated that the investment firm tied to Gates had bought 24,800 acres of land near Phoenix.

Apparently, this area will be a community that’s built around advanced technology that includes solar power, autonomous vehicles, and data centers. The city could also potentially hold up to 80,000 residential units, which will be filled with citizens who all live in the city that might just be the most technologically advanced in America.

Now, it’s worth noting that particular caveat since, even with this investment from Gates, the Smart City that will be built in Arizona is not the first of its kind. India is now actually planning to build over 100 of them, Quartz reports.

Due to the ever-expanding population of the country’s citizens, India’s government has been looking to expansion projects in order to accommodate so many people. In the process, the country also hopes to create technological hubs using these cities, which will be the basis of the Asian nation’s future infrastructure.

Unfortunately, it would seem that progress in creating these cities is moving slowly, which India’s private sector has already taken note of. The initiative was started in 2014 and hardly any progress was made.