Next year, Jeffrey Berns, CEO of Nevada-based Blockchains LLC, hopes to break ground on his proposed smart city in Storey County, which eventually would include 15,000 homes, 33 million square feet of commercial/industrial space and use an economy based on blockchain cryptocurrency.
His utopian idea has already drawn vocal opposition because Berns proposes to govern the new city with its own government. Conservationists, too, are opposed, because Berns purchased water-rights are 100-miles away and would need a pipeline across vast stretches of Northern Nevada to reach his city.
Yet state Sen. Ben Kieckhefer, R-Reno, says he likes big ideas on Nevada Newsmakers and is taking a more tempered approach.
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by Katarzyna Gajewska / March 16th, 2021
Company Blockchains LLC, co-owned by a millionaire Jeffrey Berns, bought over 67,000 acres in Northern Nevada in 2018. The plan is to build infrastructure including hotels, truck stops, and housing according to the latest technological achievements. This purchase is part of the project Innovation Zones. It aims at providing a space for innovation by employing advanced technology in real life. It wants to implement such solutions as “blockchain, autonomous technology, the internet of things, robotics, artificial intelligence, wireless technology, biometrics and renewable resource technology.”
Such projects may appear as lofty fantasies. It echoes projects of the past, which have not been well-received despite the promise of technological advancement. A nineteenth-century Illinois-located town built from scratch by an investor, George Pullman, did not appeal to the inhabitants despite being at the top of infrastructure innovation for that