Welcome, Mormons
It may be a stupid idea, but it's hardly desert. It's right next to the Napa valley wine country and the county grows corn, safflower, and produces sheep.
First thought- who's water are they going to steal?
In the Silicon Valley tradition of inventing something that already exists, they're going to do California City again.
If I could secure the pay-per-view rights to livesteam a bunch of serenely smug techbros and Goldman Sachs types actually trying to farm, or to frame an exterior wall (rather than hypothesis), I too could be a billionaire.
Broke: Seasteading Bespoke: Farmsteading
A permanent Burning Man
Smells like PR for ponzi schemes.
So, I take it none of these guys paid attention when learning about Henry Ford past the point where the teacher said he was rich?