I can't imagine any land being useless. Even contaminated radioactive land can probably be put to use as a place to store more hazardous waste or weapons testing.
It never ceases to amaze me how dismissive people are of desert land.
This particular land is covered with vegetation, it's not even some barren landscape of endless sand dunes. All he'd need to do is drill wells and build out some PV arrays and it'd already be a place people could easily/affordably build relatively comfortable, albeit simple, lives. Hardly useless.
I'd certainly prefer acres of such desert land over bitcoin of equal value.
Sorry, but most desert land is pretty “useless”. You can’t grow crops, it’s far from metropolitan centers, it’s hot. Unless there is buried oil like in Saudi Arabia, or near a major city (eg Phoenix, Vegas), the land itself is pretty “useless” in a resource extraction sense. Even solar panels need to be relatively close to a substation that can handle it.
That said, the desert can still be beautiful to those the live there, and spiritual to native Americans with history there.
So the desert is interesting and cool, but not necessarily lucrative.
