Neom
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Nov 10, 2026
ShirvanHOST
Saudi Arabia is already battling pro-Iranian Houthi rebels to the south and the Iranians themselves to the east.
ShirvanHOST
The last thing the Saudi Kingdom needs is a new geopolitical front to its north near the multi-billion dollar future city, Neom.
ShirvanHOST
Owing to this, the Saudi government is looking to avoid, or at least limit, the turmoil that many expect will erupt.
ShirvanHOST
Palestinian politics, meanwhile, is centered on the Hamas versus Fatah rivalry, so much so that it makes international negotiations involving the Palestinians exceedingly tricky since they lack a unified front.
Joel RichardsonGUEST
And there's a handful, I won't say all their names, but there are a handful of legitimate credentialed archaeologists now that are very interested in it who are clamoring to get there.
Joel RichardsonGUEST
And there's a few, by the way, that are actually employed by NEOM in Saudi Arabia that are doing digs there and this type of thing.
Joel RichardsonGUEST
So it's just a matter of time, Josh.
Joel RichardsonGUEST
Yeah.
BenHOST
it, yeah, away from something potentially embarrassing.
PhilHOST
Do you think that's why they've had to stop building that mega city, the line? Oh, is that not Neom? Yeah, Neom.
PhilHOST
Is that not the same thing, the line? I don't know.
PhilHOST
Yes, I think so, yes.
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PhilHOST
It was because it was so good.
PhilHOST
The giant spider man? The kaiju.
PhilHOST
Neom.
PhilHOST
Neom.
Mohammed Hassan SwaidanPANELIST
Saudi Arabia is already facing a huge economic problem.
Mohammed Hassan SwaidanPANELIST
And that's why NEOM is stopped.
Mohammed Hassan SwaidanPANELIST
That's why a lot of things regarding the 2030 vision has stopped.
Mohammed Hassan SwaidanPANELIST
The direction of not only the Saudi economy, but the Gulf economy, because it's based on oil mainly, is different.
Doug HenwoodHOST
But war in Iran has taken things to a new low, but they had some troubles going into it as well.
Doug HenwoodHOST
Let's start with Neom, the model city.
Doug HenwoodHOST
What was the project conceived as, and where is it now?
Djene Rhys BajalanGUEST
Nome was one of these giga projects that Saudi Arabia has been pushing forward, funded by the Saudi Investment Fund.
Abdul Majid AwanHOST
That will work.
Abdul Majid AwanHOST
NEOM is there.
Abdul Majid AwanHOST
East-West Pipeline is there for Saudi to transport oil.
Abdul Majid AwanHOST
But then Houthi rebels, which are considered to be with Iran, for Iran, fighting for Iran, they are attacking Saudi Arabia.
ShirvanHOST
Additionally, the Ras al-Hakma project has a geopolitical dimension to it.
ShirvanHOST
Firstly, by constructing a new city on the Mediterranean coast, the Emirates is directly competing with Saudi Arabia's Neom city by the Red Sea.
ShirvanHOST
Ties between Abu Dhabi and Riyadh have cooled in recent years.
ShirvanHOST
The two seem unable to synchronize policy when it comes to Syria and Yemen, but also over oil supplies as full members of OPEC.
ShirvanHOST
At the same time, Cairo and Abu Dhabi see both Hamas and Hezbollah as Islamist movements with the capabilities to overthrow nearby governments.
ShirvanHOST
Understandably, the Egyptian and Emirati leadership look to secure themselves from such threats, and the only way to do that is by leveling the playing field with Iran.
ShirvanHOST
At heart, Saudi Arabia's Neom, Egypt's new capital city, and the Ras al-Hakma project are all born from the same idea.
ShirvanHOST
Al-Sisi's credited financed overly expensive megaprojects have left the government saddled with ever-growing debt, so much so that the IMF loans are not cutting it.
Alex BlumensteinHOST
It's not just sports that are getting trimmed from the Saudi expense sheet.
Alex BlumensteinHOST
The government is reportedly forking over 16 billion US dollars to cancel chunks of its trillion dollar desert megacity, Neom, which has, not unlike Liv, proved to be a money pit.
Alex BlumensteinHOST
Jay, hit us with the big picture.
Jay RosenthalHOST
The AI bubble concerns triggered a $2.5 trillion tech stock wipeout.
Patrick BoyleHOST
But actually SoftBank didn't really lose their own money either.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Most of the money came from the Saudi Arabia Sovereign Wealth Fund, and if the Saudi Arabian Sovereign Wealth Fund hadn't blown the money on SoftBank, they would have blown it on Credit Suisse or Neom, the 110 mile long city that they are building which guarantees that inhabitants are always the maximum distance from wherever they need to go at any point in time.
Patrick BoyleHOST
One way or another, this money was going to be vaporised, so we only have to feel so bad.
Patrick BoyleHOST
Now, journalists at the Financial Times this week spoke to a number of the creditors, advisers and other people involved in WeWork's bankruptcy, who refused to comment on the record given that they are in the midst of legal proceedings.
Abdul Majid AwanHOST
So CAI has a motive, a goal, a vision to build data centers.
Abdul Majid AwanHOST
Humane, National AI Champion of Saudi Arabia has a vision mission and everything to build data centers in NEOM and everywhere to rent them out.
Abdul Majid AwanHOST
UAE already is building the largest data center complex, the largest data center cluster in the world after U.S. in terms of Stargate UAE.
Abdul Majid AwanHOST
All of these, their investments also get affected eventually when the tech sell-off across the globe is happening.
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