The Saudi crown family's megalomaniac dreams of building a gigantic city of the future in the middle of the desert are getting a brutal reality check. Saudi Arabia's plans for Neom, a futuristic fever dream which includes a massive all-inclusive on the coast, a ski resort in the mountains, and an up to 100 miles-long and 1,600 feet tall skyscraper called The Line, is unsurprisingly running into major budget problems. As the Wall Street Journal reports, capital expenditure to build Neom to what officials call its "end-state" by 2080 have ballooned to $8.8 trillion, over 25 times the kingdom's annual […]

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