Bill gates smart city az

BILL GATES TO BUILD 'SMART CITY'One of Bill Gates' investment firms has spent $80 million to kickstart the development of a brand-new community in the far West Valley.The large plot of land is about 45 minutes west of downtown Phoenix off I-10 near Tonopah.The proposed community, made up of close to 25,000 acres of land, is called Belmont. According to Belmont Partners, a real estate investment group based in Arizona, the goal is to turn the land into its own "smart city."Belmont will create a forward-thinking community with a communication and infrastructure spine that embraces cutting-edge technology, designed around high-speed digital networks, data centers, new manufacturing technologies and distribution models, autonomous vehicles and autonomous logistics hubs," Belmont Partners said in a news release.Ronald Schott, executive emeritus at the Arizona Technology Council, says the land Gates' company purchased is in a good spot, in part due to the proposed I-11 freeway, which would run right through Belmont and connect to Las Vegas."Bill Gates is known for innovation and those kind of things and I think he picked the right place. He's coming to Arizona," Schott said.According to Belmont Partners, 3,800 acres will go towards office, commercial and retail space. Then, 470 acres will be used for public schools. Plus, there's room for 80,000 residential units."Comparable in square miles and projected population to Tempe, Arizona, Belmont will transform a raw, blank slate into a purpose-built edge city built around a flexible infrastructure model," said Belmont Properties."Finally Arizona's getting recognized for being a place for innovation," added Schott.So far, there's no word on when construction will start.

Long-time subscriber “Russ” writes: I think Bill Gates is onto something with his desert community; too bad everyone else doesn’t seem to feel the same way. Any thoughts on that subject? It’s at its infancy.Sorry to be argumentative, but here are mine:Bill Gates bought 25K acres of the Arizona desert west of Phoenix in which he plans to build a model “smart city,” featuring high-speed internet, “connected infrastructure” (ubiquitous IoT, I guess), and driverless cars.From this article: “(The city) will create a forward-thinking community with a communication and infrastructure spine that embraces cutting-edge technology, designed around high-speed digital networks, data centres, new manufacturing technologies and distribution models, autonomous vehicles and autonomous logistics hubs,” said a statement from Belmont Partners, according to 12 News. Roughly 3,800 acres will be devoted to office, commercial, and retail space, while 470 acres will be set aside for public schools. Around 80,000 residences will also be created, forming a population of approximately 182,000.I won’t be one of those 182,000 people; I can assure you of that.For the life of me, I don’t see the point in this project.First of all, building a “model city” should include an intelligent thought process for site selection. Why put it where the demand for air conditioning requires vast amounts of stuff (at a minimum, solar PV, batteries, and air conditioning units) to make it habitable? Why put it where it requires lots of travel-miles to get to and from it, when there are open spaces in temperate climates all over the U.S. that would make much better choices?Second, let’s ask some questions: Don’t we already know that smart cities, especially those built from the ground up, offer huge advantages in terms of environmental footprint? (Yes.) Will residents enjoy some incremental utility associated with needing a dozen eggs and having them show up in three minutes? (I suppose.) Per the above, do we need another city in the desert, where summer temperatures are routinely over 120 degrees F? (No.)Further questions include: Does our civilization face existential threats that have very little to do with this project? (Absolutely.) Shouldn’t billionaire philanthropists, especially ones of Gates’ intellect and horsepower, be focusing on averting global catastrophe? (I leave that to the reader to decide, but you can guess where I stand.)

Looking for the best Bill Gates Quotes?Bill Gates is a man that needs no introduction. The Microsoft co-founder and CEO has been recognised as one of the richest men in the world for over two decades now and has consistently been right at the top.The Harvard College dropout started Microsoft with Paul Allen back in 1975 and and it didn’t take very long to become the largest software company in the world thanks to a clear, ambitious vision and seizing opportunities.One of the things that I find most inspiring about Bill Gates is his philanthropy. Through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation he has given approximately $35 billion to charity already.While Bill Gates doesn’t really believe in leaving behind a legacy, one could argue that between himself and the late Steve Jobs, they have revolutionised the personal computer industry.If you were to learn about success from any individual, Gates would certainly be near the top. With that said I hope these Bill Gates quotes inspire you to create success.49 Bill Gates Quotes1. “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates2. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates3. “Life is not fair; get used to it.” – Bill Gates4. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates5. “I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.” – Bill Gates6. “Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.” – Bill Gates7. “What’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.” – Bill Gates8. “Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.” – Bill Gates9. “I spend a lot of time reading.” – Bill Gates10. “Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‘tap-dancing to work.'” – Bill Gates11. “The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.” – Bill Gates12. “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to

Would you build a city somewhere that looks like this?/Flickr/SKBy Henry Grabar | SlateA whole lot of nothing.Here are some things you should know about the smart city Bill Gates is building in Phoenix. It’s not a city, nor is it “smart,” nor does the Microsoft founder appear to be involved in any meaningful way. And when outlets like CNBC say it’s in Phoenix, well … the plot of land in question is some 40 miles west of Phoenix, on the western edge of the metropolis’s westernmost suburb. Still, it appears to be true that Cascade Investment LLC, the firm that manages an uncertain number of billions of Gates’ money, used a subsidiary LLC called Mt. Lemmon Holdings to invest $80 million in a greenfield development project here—if the term can be applied to the very-not-green Arizona desert.READ ON: November 16, 2017 Additional Articles © 2025 Rose Law Group Reporter Rose Law Group Reporter, which provides Dealmaker’s content and service, is contracted by Rose Law Group. Rose Law Group is a full service real estate and business Law Firm practicing in the areas of land use/entitlements, real estate transactions, real estate due diligence/project management, special districts, tax law, water law, business litigation, corporate formation, intellectual property, asset protection, data breach/privacy law, ADA compliance, estate planning, family law, cyber-law, online reputation and defamation, lobbying, energy and renewable energy, tax credits/financing, employment law, Native American law, equine law, DUIs, and medical marijuana, among others. The views expressed above are not necessarily those of Rose Law Group pc or its associates and are in no way legal advice. This blog should be used for informational purposes only. It does not create an attorney-client relationship with any reader and should not be construed as legal advice. If you need legal advice, please contact an attorney in your community who can assess the specifics of your situation.

With everything and nothing everywhere," BIG architect Bjarke Ingels said on-stage at CES, according to the transcript. "So we started by splitting the typical street into three separate forms of mobility."The streets will consist of faster transportation such as the AVs, an urban promenade for pedestrians and slower forms of mobility and ​a pedestrian-only parkway. The streets will form grids of 3x3 city blocks surrounding a park or courtyard.Much of the city's infrastructure will be underground, including hydrogen fuel cells and water filtration systems, along with a network for autonomous goods delivery that connects to the above-ground buildings. Homes will be equipped with cutting-edge technologies such as sensor-based AI to check residents' health and enhance their lives.The city is designed with sustainability in mind. Rooftops will have solar panels to supplement the underground hydrogen power, buildings will be constructed primarily of wood and hydroponics and native species will be installed throughout the city.Building a city from the ground up carries the benefit of installing the latest technologies and not having to worry about compatibility or retrofits with aging infrastructure. But it also bears the burden of a substantial capital investment all at once, rather than incrementally building on previous infrastructure over time, as traditional cities do.Other manufactured smart cities have been proposed, but so far none have come to fruition. In fall 2017, a Bill Gates investment firm made an $80 million land purchase in Arizona on which he proposed building a smart city called Belmont. While the location offers ample opportunities for solar energy, questions have arisen about the feasibility of building a new city in a water-strapped area.A plan has been in the works since at least 2016 to develop the Gramercy District smart city in Loudoun County, VA. However, little work has occurred on that site, and

Some time. Later on, General Electric understood that their company needed better protection and invited Bill Gates with his friends to identify the security holes. They offered the boys to have endless access to computers in return. It goes without saying that the boys agreed to it. One of the projects that Gates worked on was scheduling classes and “miraculously” the boys were always in the same group with the prettiest girls at school.The next stage at his professional development was his work for the Information Science where he was working on the program which would make-up payroll sheet. When Bill was just 15 he wrote the software that optimized road traffic and found the customer who bought it for $ 20, 000 dollars.The only people who saw the threat in such a big sum of money where Bill’s parents. They were afraid that money could spoil their son and his enthusiasm would not lead him to anything good. So, they banned him from all computer projects. The next year the future genius of software programming spent entertaining himself with the biographies of famous people. However, they changed their mind when Bill was offered a job for Bonneville with the revenue of $30,000 dollars.When the boy entered Harvard University he had to choose either to become a lawyer as his father or a mathematician. It appeared that Bill Gates had other plans about all those things. He set up his own software company Micro-Soft (the way it was spelled at the beginning). Although they tried really hard the company was not in profit at the beginning. They even did not have enough money to hire a sales manager, so Bill’s mother volunteered to help them. The main reason of such a bad start was that some of his employees were copying the software (MS Basic which he wrote) and sold it to the others. Bill Gates was one of the first people who stated that software programming should be protected by law like other intellectual property (musical composition, etc).In 1976, he decided to drop university and devote all his time to the growing company. Definitely his parents disagreed with him about it, but Bill Gates never ever regretted about it.Bill Gate’s family lifeBill Gate’s wife Melinda was born in Dallas in 1964 in the family of a house rental agent Ray French. She is an incredibly smart and goal oriented