It's not just the Saudis doing crazy stuff like this. From the Wikipedia article On Neom, I found this: > Belmont is a proposed planned city in the Phoenix met

It's not just the Saudis doing crazy stuff like this. From the Wikipedia article On Neom, I found this: > Belmont is a proposed planned city in the Phoenix metropolitan area of Arizona, United States. The development, a partnership between billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates and local real estate investors, will be a "smart city" designed around emerging technologies.[1] It will be located in the West Valley area, along Interstate 10 near Tonopah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont,_Arizona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont,_Arizona That's some of the driest, hottest land anywhere in the US and an extremely fragile ecosystem. The ongoing Colorado River crisis just makes this more of a head-scratcher. Maybe not at the same scale, but definitely a similar sense of leading with technology rather than the problem.