Saudi plans $500bn high-tech city

posted by Francis Churchill

31 October 2017

Saudi Arabia has announced plans to build a new, high tech city on the coast of the Red Sea at a cost of at least $500bn.

The new city, dubbed project Neom, promises to be both technologically advanced and more liberal than other cities in Saudi Arabia. Promotional material has described the city as “the world’s most ambitious project”.

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