This just in: thing that everyone with even the tiniest bit of knowledge said was stupid and impossible turns out to be impossible! (And also stupid)
The kingdom has previously suggested it was shifting course on the project as it pivoted to building artificial intelligence data centres now planned for Neom.
Because of course they are :|
It’s going to be about as a messy to cool them in that desert as it would be in space.
Maybe radiative cooling with MASSIVE amounts of surface area? Then they have to be designed around the sun never hitting the radiators.
Maybe build them underground?
Check out the London Subway system to see what happens when you add heat to an underground system.
Good point. I vote for not building them at all, then.
Like the good friends of the USA they are
To the surprise of absolutely no one..
The announcement came alongside annual results which showed the sovereign wealth fund posted a 4.2 per cent decline in total shareholder return in 2025, driven by a fall in the valuations of some assets, “as a result of wider market conditions”.
I wonder what these "wider conditions" are.
Also, the many illustrations in the article are absolute fantasy trash. Who believes in this? It's desert country, hot and dry, getting more so each year.
BTW, Neom is by the Red Sea, bordering Egypt/Jordan/Israel.
This is Mohammed bin Salmans project. Those renders are a great distraction from MBS crack down against opposing royals and Wahhabi radicals inside the kingdom. It also keeps the national wealth fund busy.
Saudis parked fuckload of money in ai startups
Lol. Investors get fucked!
That makes the ethnic cleansing OK then.
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