US farmers, tech tycoons square off over plans for utopian city

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 23, 2023 12:11 am

DENVERTON, California: A stealth campaign by Silicon Valley elites with a dream of turning a swath of California farmland into a new age city has ranchers who live here challenging their tactics and their motives.

The project first surfaced when a mysterious buyer started snapping up parcels of land in this rural outback between San Francisco and Sacramento.

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