Sacramento Is About to Have the Most High-Tech Basketball Stadium

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Something pretty cool has been growing

in the heart of California's capital.

It's a new 500 million dollar arena

for the NBA Sacramento King's: The Golden 1 Center.

When the stadium is completed this fall,

They hope it will be so outrageously

technologically advanced, that it will even

wow fans from Silicon Valley.

And not just the fans inside.

This arena will be open to all.

We have doors that are sixty feet tall,

One hundred and fifty feet wide,

literally airplane hangar doors

that will open up and really blur the lines

between, are you watching a game

or an event inside, or watching

a game or an event outside?

[Narrator] The entire experience will be

intimately tied to the team's app.

You'll use it to buy tickets,

but it will also tell you where

it's easiest to park, and how to get around.

The King's say you can even use it to order

hot dogs, delivered right to your seat, of course.

And if watching replays on the 84-foot screen

isn't your thing, the app will

pipe video and stats into your phone.

And, you won't even have to use your own data.

The Golden 1 Center will also be studded

with hundreds of Wifi access points.

But providing Internet for over 17,000 fans

is, how should we say, daunting.

So, the arena will come complete with its own

6,000 square foot data center to handle the load.

The Golden 1 Center will be

the world's most connected arena.

We have two 100 gig pipes coming into the arena.

What that means for the fans is that

they will be able to upload

225,000 Instagram photos per second,

or half a million Snapchats per second.

[Narrator] That incredible power is

all the more impressive, considering the arena

is planned to be 100 percent solar powered.

And, instead of a bunch of giant air-conditioners

hanging above, the stands are cooled from below,

which the team says is more efficient.

That means the people in a given section

may one day be able to vote to set their temperature.

Now, how's that for a fan experience?

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