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    Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City.

    Patrick Boyle

    2 HN recommenders · recommended in 6 months, 2024–2025

    YouTube

    32:55 · 3.2M views · Apr 16, 2024

    Patrick Boyle's deadpan account of Saudi Arabia's Neom and The Line megaproject, a planned 170 km linear city that has been scaled back to a fraction of its size. He covers the feasibility problems and the financing.

    Recommended as the entertaining, skeptical overview of Neom whenever its progress comes up.

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    7 comments from Hacker News

    1. @tim333Mar 2025· in “What Went Wrong at Saudi Arabia's Futuristic Metropolis in the Desert”

      It was kind of a duff idea from the start. Patrick Boyles youtube Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City this video is rather epic if you haven't seen it.

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    2. @tim333Oct 2024· in “Saudi Arabian Neom project 'uses one fifth of world's steel'”

      I think not. They probably mean the planned project would use one fifth of the world's steel but it is currently just a hole in the ground and the project is kind of ridiculous and won't get built as planned - even the Saudis don't have enough money. Patrick Boyle had an entertaining youtube on it this video

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    3. @karaterobotApr 2024· in “Saudi Arabia's Sci-Fi Megacity in the Desert Isn't Going Well”

      Patrick Boyle's channel on Youtube did a great video on this. this video It seems unfeasible, bordering on impossible, and also a terrible idea even if aliens came down and built it for us tomorrow.

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    4. @tim333Nov 2025· in “The AI bubble is bigger than you think”

      It's been rather extraordinary. The Patrick Boyle vid on Neom done about a year ago was entertaining ( this video ). As might be expected that's all ground to a halt now.

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    5. @smcinJun 2025· in “Everything you need to know about Egypt's new capital city”

      Doesn't count. Egypt's New Administrative Capital is located only 45km east of Cairo. Whereas previous epic fails on relocating capitals (/planned cities): - Nigeria's Abuja (1991) [0] is 330 mi/530 km northeast of Lagos, 1h20 by plane or 12hr by car. Fairly successful relocation. - Myanmar's Naypyidaw (2008) is 320 km/200 mi north of Yangon [1] Claimed 2025 population 930K, actual 780-900K. - Indonesia's Nusantara ("will be fully finished in five phases by 2045, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Indonesia") is on Borneo, 870 mi/11400 km and one island northeast of Jakarta [2] - also Saudi Arabia previously had King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC, planned since 2005), not a capital replacement: a planned city, intended as a logistics and manufacturing hub. Planned population: 2 million; actual 2002 population: only 7,000. [3] KAEC is referenced in the epic totally-not-sarcastic video Patrick Boyle on "Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City" [4]. [0]: [LINK] [1]: [LINK] [2]: [LINK] [3]: [LINK] [4]: this video

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