Saudi Arabia's $500 Billion Project Facing Major Setbacks

Explore Neom: Saudi Arabia's $500 billion mega-project with twin skyscrapers stretching 170 kilometers across the desert. Discover the challenges and innovations behind this ambitious city of the future. Can Neom transform urban living, or will it be crushed by its own scale? Dive into this extraordinary vision and find out!

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[chippysteve]

Hats off to the architects and contractors for keeping a straight face while the Emperor is measured up for his new clothes!

[lech]

Everyone claps when a dictator has a new idea

[TheXnyr]

"The air is thick with diesel fumes" ecological my ass!

[cyrus]

Huge mirror in a sandy location. Imagine the constant cleaning.

[TONY-qk]

The larger the budget the more missing money.

[EldritchErik]

Anyone who thought this was even possible is clearly delusional.

[armchair]

NEOM Even One Mile. I love how they show people picking fruit from the Do the people on the first 80-90 floors ever see sunlight again?? Flying cars just zippin' around. How come they don't show the industrial pumps needed to supply water to the top floors?? No time to figure out where their food comes from...save the birds from flying into the mirrors. They show trucks and diggers moving a lot of sand around for miles and miles, but not even one foot of skyscrapers. And this is to combat urban sprawl?? Your in a freaking desert...sprawl all you want. I really do want some of what these people are smoking.

[DragonsinGenesisPodcast]

Can’t wait to visit this thing when it gets abandoned in a few years.

[gknyarko]

They should make the mirror walls solar panels instead, so there will be more electricity

[dominicwood]

If they even get to 2km it will be miraculous. This is surely not viable? Can you imagine the forces on such tall broad slab of a building if a storm hits the region? This says everything that is wrong with the world in general. A few mega rich individuals have colossal wealth and the vast majority live in poverty.

[EA_customersupport]

Someone has that top notch presentation skills. They aced it in convincing the multi billionaire arab monarchs

[JohnDoeX]

With all that hundreds of billions of dollars, MBS is like a child playing in a minecraft or sims video game

[santosteffano]

All this because everyone is afraid to tell one man that something that is clearly a very bad idea ... is a very bad idea.

[gertrudekopiyo]

This sounds similar to the Biblical Tower of Babel. It is probably a matter of time for such ingenuity to be really put to the test. The Master Builder is watching.

[jamesdixon]

Millions of people living side by side with no privacy and no way to expand their homes of life styles, what happens when people are tired of living next to one another, total distance

[MrScotteckersley]

This is not possible, give it up now before everyone goes bankrupt.

[Robodroidalien]

As an Architect myself. I feel sorry for the underpaid workers.

[alsunra]

The more I think about the line, the more I am convinced this will never happen on even a hundredth of a scale as originally envisioned. To put it bluntly, we don’t have the technology.

[duGarbondier]

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[TommyHoff]

This lunacy project has been scaled down to 2.5 Km now 😃😃