Technology Company to Build 20 Square Mile Ghost Town in New Mexico
Posted on September 7, 2011
A technology development firm named Pegasus Global Holdings plans to build a 20 square mile ghost town in New Mexico. Pegasus Global says The Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation (The Center) will resemble a mid-sized American city, including urban canyons, suburban neighborhoods, rural communities and distant localities.
Some of the technologies The Center could test include smart grid applications and renewable energies. Additional test possibilites include technologies emerging in intelligent traffic systems, next-generation wireless networks, smart grid cyber security and terrorism vulnerability.
ABC News reports that the city will contain no people. Anthony Rufolo, a professor urban planning at Portland State University, told ABC News that an empty city cannot test for everything. He said, "Obviously some things, like the canyon effects of broadcast could be tested, but I don't know how you could test recycled water without people there to generate waste water."