Saudi Arabia’s construction of its megacity project NEOM is projected to cost almost $9 trillion and take over five decades to complete, an internal audit has revealed.

  • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    I love me some mega-projects, but as much as I’d love to see Neom succeed, I will be absolutely shocked if it ever becomes something more than a big ditch in the desert.

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    9 hours ago

    This is that proposed city that’s just a big rectangle/straight line in the desert?

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        37 minutes ago

        It might be a long straight line, so everything will be as far away from everything else as geometrically possible, but at least it will have a hyperloop inside to quickly travel between parts of the line… Oh wait

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    50 years would be 2075, assuming that they don’t run out of money or lose interest by then. The World Cup in 2034 is slightly before 2075. Hence, is the plan to host it in a construction site or doing it digitally in their lovely digital model of the stadium?