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New Mexico has its share of strange sites (Roswell, anyone?), but “The Center” may be the weirdest one yet.
Basically, it’ll look like a mid-size American city, complete with urban buildings, suburban neighborhoods and rural communities. But there will be no human residents.
Instead, “The Center” is being planned as a massive metropolitan petri dish for new technologies such as smart grid applications, renewable energies, intelligent traffic systems, next-generation wireless networks and more.
The idea is to use real-world infrastructure rather than “a sterile lab environment,” said Washington D.C.-based technology development firm Pegasus Global Holdings, which is spearheading the project. The only people there will be those holding 350-odd jobs designing, developing, building and operating the “city.”
New Mexico has its share of strange sites (Roswell, anyone?), but “The Center” may be the weirdest one yet.
Basically, it’ll look like a mid-size American city, complete with urban buildings, suburban neighborhoods and rural communities. But there will be no human residents.
Instead, “The Center” is being planned as a massive metropolitan petri dish for new technologies such as smart grid applications, renewable energies, intelligent traffic systems, next-generation wireless networks and more.
The idea is to use real-world infrastructure rather than “a sterile lab environment,” said Washington D.C.-based technology development firm Pegasus Global Holdings, which is spearheading the project. The only people there will be those holding 350-odd jobs designing, developing, building and operating the “city.”