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Scheduled to open in 2014, the CITE, as the town is officially known, will come complete with roads, buildings, water lines and power grids, enough to support 35,000 people — even though nothing but software will ever live there. The only humans present will be several hundred engineers and programmers huddled underground in a Disneyland-like warren of control rooms. They’ll be playing SimCity for real.