Tech Utopians Want to Build a City in Colonia, Uruguay

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/world/americas/praxis-uruguay-colonia-tech-utopia.html

The American tech utopians had spent years scouring the globe for a place to build their city of the future. The founders of Praxis — a company and online community backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in financing from a crypto company

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[Uruguay] also has a “Switzerland in South America vibe,” Mr. Brown said, with “great waves” and enough natural beauty to attract creative professionals and tech executives unemployed because “A.I. is going to take all the jobs.”

Leonardo Costa, a Uruguayan lawyer and tax law professor, said that in recent years, a growing number of Europeans and North Americans have bought property in Uruguay, drawn in part by its distance from turmoil in other parts of the world.