That was usually my first thought when these projects come up. Who would want to live there? I can see why billionaires want to, but what about all the citizens that make up a real city? Why would a cook with a family and ambitions want to live permanently in the middle of an ocean, far from the "real world"?
The sad reality is that the wealthy people running the place would probably recruit domestic servants, using the same labor recruiters that send people from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
If we are talking about blueseed, then the answer of who would want to live their is obvious (and was even in their sales pitch!).
The answer would be high skilled immigrant tech workers who don't have a visa, and want to be near the center of the tech world.
The way that the visa system worked, is that as long as you spend at least half your time, not in the USA, then you would be allowed to enter San Francisco as much as you want, otherwise.
Blue seed would be 12 miles off the coast of SF, so that would be a 30minute to 1 hour commute to the city. Certainly doable.
And Blue seed was advertising cheaper rents than the city to boot!
nginx bad gateway.
No updates since 2014 or so.