CITE: Tech Ghost City

The CITE ( Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation ) project has some fairly incredible descriptive qualities. It is a billion dollar project from Pegasus Global Holdings that will emulate a 35,000 person residential district - urban, suburban and rural zones - intended for the purposes of testing new technologies. There will be no residents.

It is a test city for companies to try out new tech. Want to see how responsive road paint holds up in a variety of weather conditions? Or driverless cars? Or drone mail delivery? Or new home designs for natural disaster survival? Alternative energy sources at scale? The City and Field labs can help facilitate it all through the intense monitoring of the somewhat scary sounding CITE Backbone.

For whatever reason, this this sounds like equal parts New World Order and Actual Great Idea. I don't see how a personless city can be a fully fortified test of new technology but it certainly seems like a good place to start.