Neom

[Michel Van]

Another Failed Megaproject
The $22 billions Masdar City in UAE

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E10O2fghqZc

 

[Rhinocrates]

Is that a bone saw in your pocket?

Different bald guy with beard and glasses. He's Irish and an economist... and hilarious.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak4on5uTaTg

 

[Aubi]

There's reason Simon has this as merch for years now...

 

[0cu0]

It is actually sad to see so many bad ideas getting carried out.
But if you have build for US$15 billion this monstrosity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_Towers
right behind your most sacred site, everything after that becomes irrelevant.

 

[Orionblamblam]

It is actually sad to see so many bad ideas getting carried out.

Sometimes. But not always. If there is a country loaded with cash derived from resource extraction and the local culture/civilization is trash, you *want* them to blow that cash on useless doomed nonsense. They could instead spend it on generating an effective military, foreign missionary expeditions, space colonization. Projects that would allow their trash culture to not only survive but perhaps even thrive and dominate the future.

I'd rather they spend it on clown shows that leave them with nothing but broken statues in the sand at the end of the day.

 

[0cu0]

or they could buy Greenland : )

 

[Orionblamblam]

or they could buy Greenland : )

Buying Greenland would be a good idea for anyone who did it. Lots of natural resources there. Territorial expansion via buying property is almost always a winner of an investment.

 

[Arjen]

Acquiring property with the willing consent of the owners/occupants - yes. Without their consent, it is theft. As currently seen in several places all over the world.
Under duress, it becomes extortion.

 

[had]

$50 billion spend already, only $450 billion left to go - yeah...

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/02/11/neom-50-billion-update/

 

[Grey Havoc]

Neom, Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Desert City Project, Announces $5 Billion AI Data Center

The urban development project has often seemed pie-in-the-sky. A new "energy efficient" data center project promises more of the same.

gizmodo.com

 

[Michel Van]

List failed Megaproject, who are sub scale compare to NEOM.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-65bHmC9HY4

 

[Archibald]

Neom, Saudi Arabia's Dystopian Desert City Project, Announces $5 Billion AI Data Center

The urban development project has often seemed pie-in-the-sky. A new "energy efficient" data center project promises more of the same.

gizmodo.com

Oh gosh, A.I now part of the silly thing. Next logical step: MBS will launch a Neom crypto to fund the whole thing, Ponzi style as usual. Somewhat like Trump goons and Milei.

 

[had]

Dubai loop - Musk making money - https://www.drivingeco.com/en/elon-...turo-transporte-dubai-loop-the-boring-compan/
"I'm to rich to use the subway, let me drive my car through the tunnels"

 

[Michel Van]

Work on the Mukaab started.
it will be largest volume ever build, If completed...
...because it cost $50 Billion and Saudia Arabia has no secure the Finance.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-hZRdQfgBQ

 

[Michel Van]

The Planned Ski-resort in Saudi Arabia...
...you read right a Ski-resort in the desert

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mNV0xNo1v8

 

[Michel Van]

Best Critic so far on the LINE
They not only look on problem of constructions,
They focus also on Operation cost and power need, water and work force etc...
Like that the entire Line need 5 MWe. electrical power daily !
Also Political implication for Saudia Arabia future

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxIzLSAKUGE

 

[Archibald]

The Planned Ski-resort in Saudi Arabia...
...you read right a Ski-resort in the desert

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mNV0xNo1v8

Obscene. There is no other word. Then again, MSB is an obscene, bloated, murderous pig.

 

[Michel Van]

A very good overview of entire Program layout and details on the Line section that is under construction
Also those little issue, like where are the car parking ?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FRlNH-LhX8

 

[martinbayer]

A very good overview of entire Program layout and details on the Line section that is under construction
Also those little issue, like where are the car parking ?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FRlNH-LhX8

What are these "cars" that you speak of??? I thought it's gonna be all nifty jiffy zero carbon/physical footprint hover thingy air taxis by then...

 

[had]

Just to add an additional layer to this "vision"

Only 17 Asiatic cheetahs are left worldwide (mostly inside Iran)
In that case, the re population inside S.Arabia could be difficult if they..
a) don`t buy them from Iran (possible, but unlikely)
b) don't clone them (possible, but ambitious)
c) don't take African cheetahs and tell anyone
d) don't build little mechanical ones

 

[Michel Van]

What are these "cars" that you speak of??? I thought it's gonna be all nifty jiffy zero carbon/physical footprint hover thingy air taxis by then...

you mean those ones ?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqGQBZiFu4Y
Were is there parking space for those, On Top or side of The Line ?

i guess those will be mostly use by Police in the Line
Police units like this ones...

 

[martinbayer]

you mean those ones ?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqGQBZiFu4Y

I mean Wisk, Archer, Joby, Vertical Aerospace - you want me to drone on???

 

[Justo Miranda]

update on the Mukaab

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhfYiE3Qmkk

Hi

 

[martinbayer]

Saudi Arabia's 100-Mile Skyscraper Is Turning Into a Disaster

The Saudi crown family's dreams of building a gigantic city of the future called Neom in the desert are getting a brutal reality check.

futurism.com

Operative tagline: "Who could've seen this coming?"

 

[Rhinocrates]

Somewhere in the afterlife, JG Ballard is furiously taking notes.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMIA-EHS7vM&ab_channel=PatrickBoyle

 

[Orionblamblam]

It'll be interesting watching the desert reclaim that once it's fully abandoned.

 

[Justo Miranda]

It'll be interesting watching the desert reclaim that once it's fully abandoned.

This is not the first time this has happened.

 

[Orionblamblam]

This is not the first time this has happened.

For the most part, those were built *up.* So far, the construction on Neom seems to be *down, digging out the foundations. If it's abandoned while it's still below ground level, it will sooner or later get filled up and will be hard to detect.