Real-life Sim City to be Built in New Mexico Desert!
An international technology development firm called Pegasus Global Holdings has announced they'll build an entire city, which may occupy up to 20 square miles in the New Mexico desert, that will have everything a city does—except actual people living there. It will be known as The Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation, and will be constructed purely to conduct infrastructure experiments that would be too disruptive to pull off in an actual city.
Once this fake city is up and running, interested parties would be able to test "positive and negative impacts of smart grid applications...integration of renewable energies for residential, commercial and industrial sectors of the economy...technologies emerging in intelligent traffic systems, next-generation wireless networks, smart grid cyber security and terrorism vulnerability." (No word on whether they'll tackle longstanding urban myths, like what happens when everyone flushes the toilet at the same time.)
The Center, which will be funded by both the government and private investors, which charge testing fees to those using the facilities. The mid-size city will also generate enough real electricity that it can be sold to neighboring communities.
