Let's assume it goes ahead for sake of argument. Will they be like a giant HOA, or a place of resident freedom? My guess is more like an HOA. Something more like little Singapores, With occasional oopsies from tech experiments that blow up.
And that too. Company towns are usually built around a resource like a
mine or something, whereas city states arise at natural confluences. A
company setup has only one show in town and whoever controls that is
boss. Building out in the desert is Red Alert command sims stuff
IMHO. and probably works if you've a nuclear reactor and a ring of
tesla-coils around the whole perimeter.
Could be built around a data center.
Yeah, if I’m libertarian at all, I’m much more homestead on a few hundred acres libertarian than like Choose you’re own HOA libertarian