• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    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)

  • Almacca@aussie.zone
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    7 hours ago

    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 :|

    • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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      2 minutes ago

      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.

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip
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    5 hours ago

    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.

    • MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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      4 hours ago

      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.