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.

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thepryz 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I always thought Detroit would have been the ideal location for Amazon to build HQ2 for that reason.

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voxadam 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordlandia

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paxys 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You can build it, sure, but why would anyone want to live there?

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giancarlostoro 6 days ago | parent [-]

Disconnected 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.

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paxys 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

97% 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 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, but most people don't want to live far from a city with limited resources like access to doctors, and such.

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danlugo92 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> affordable

You'd get Waco'ed or Ruby Ridge'ed.