Bill Gates spent $ 80 million to buy a desert to build a smart city

The Belmont smart city will create a pioneering thinking community and modern infrastructure.

Belmont Partners, an investment company founded by Bill Gates has just bought a 25,000 acre land. Located 72km west of Phoenix City, the area is located in the heart of the Arizona desert to build a smart city called Belmont .

Occupying most of the area will be 80,000 residential areas.

"The smart city of Belmont will create a pioneering thinking community with a key element of modern infrastructure. It will have high-speed Internet access, data centers, self-propelled vehicles, centers. Automated logistics, production technologies and new distribution models " . Belmont City is described in a press release by Belmont Partners Real Estate Investment Company.

According to Belmont Partners, the community will transform from a rough, empty city into a city with a flexible and advanced infrastructure model.

In order to keep the environment clean, the city's public trash can be equipped with sensors. They are responsible for broadcasting notifications when the garbage is full. People here can open the office and turn on the computer before going to work. They can also use their mobile phones to get directions and parking spaces.

The smart city is located 72km west of Phoenix city.

It is known that there will be about 15% of the city area for commercial areas, offices, and retail stores; 2% of the area will be for schools. Occupying most of the area will be 80,000 residential areas combined with cool green campus, which is home to an estimated 182,000 people.

Gates billionaire Belmont will follow the steps of a similar metropolis built in Columbus, Ohio. However, the specific time when Belmont will be built remains unpublished.