{"id":49407,"date":"2026-01-30T10:11:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=49407"},"modified":"2026-01-30T10:11:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:11:43","slug":"%e6%b2%99%e7%89%b9-900-%e4%b8%87%e4%ba%ba%e8%a7%84%e6%a8%a1%e6%b2%99%e6%bc%a0%e8%b6%85%e7%ba%a7%e5%9f%8e%e5%b8%82%e8%ae%a1%e5%88%92%e9%81%87%e9%98%bb%ef%bc%8c%e6%b6%88%e6%81%af","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/49407.html","title":{"rendered":"IN SAUDI ARABIA, 9 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE \"DESERT SUPERCITIES\" PROGRAM WERE BLOCKED AND NEWS WAS THAT THEY WOULD BE GIVEN ACCESS TO THE AI DATA CENTRE"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news of January 30thSaudi Arabia<\/a>The Line City, an Arab super-project, was originally planned to create a linear city in the desert that would extend about 170 km in extremely high density formCombining automated transport with renewable energy<\/strong>In narrow space, about 9 million inhabitants\u3002<\/p>\n

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However, according to the Financial Times on 26 January, internal reviews revealed delays in the project and continued cost escalation, while Saudi financial pressure increased and officials were reassessing this ambitious blueprint. According to the source, the new scheme may beNo longer targeting large-scale residential cities<\/strong>Instead, it has shifted to much smaller industrial uses\u3002<\/p>\n

In this context, the planning team is reportedly considering transforming the area into a cloud service and largeData Center<\/a>Base, to support high-intensity computing needs. The project's focus is likely to become a high-density server clusterSERVICE AI TRAINING AND REASONING<\/strong>Instead of building houses or urban public services\u3002<\/p>\n

The view was also expressed that operators might prefer naked metal infrastructure to maximize performance and resource efficiency\u3002<\/p>\n

ACCORDING TO AI, SAUDI ARABIA IS GRADUALLY ACCELERATING ITS AI COMPUTING LAYOUT AND PURCHASING THOUSANDS OF ADVANCED GPUS FOR STATE-SUPPORTED FACILITIES. HOWEVER, THE SAUDI CLIMATE IS A RECOGNIZED CHALLENGE FOR THE OPERATION OF DATA CENTRES:Long-term high-temperature superheat plus limited freshwater resources<\/strong>The issue of cooling costs and efficiency was highlighted\u3002<\/p>\n

Independent studies indicate that most of the existing data centres in the country are in less cooling-efficient areas. However, the geographical conditions of the \u201cline city\u201d near the Red Sea coast were seen as advantages, and planners suggested the use of sea water cooling to mitigate the challenge\u3002<\/p>\n

After many years of expansionary public spending, Saudi liquidity tightened, while oil price revenues fell, compounded by multiple commitments such as Expo and the 2034 World Cup, further raised fiscal pressures\u3002<\/p>\n

The Neom side did not actively deny the reduction in the scope of the projectEmphasis on a phased approach<\/strong>and ensure alignment with national priorities. Observers note that similar reductions and adjustments have occurred in other large Saudi projects\u3002<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 30 January, Saudi Arabia's Neom super-project, The Line City, was originally planned to create a linear city in the desert extending about 170 km, combining automated transport with renewable energy in an extremely high-density form, with about 9 million inhabitants in narrow space. However, according to the Financial Times on 26 January, internal reviews revealed delays in the project and continued cost escalation, while Saudi financial pressure increased and officials were reassessing this ambitious blueprint. According to informed sources, the new programme may no longer target large-scale residential cities, but instead shift to much smaller industrial uses. In this context, the planning team is said to be considering transforming the area into a cloud service and a large data centre base to support<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[2231,2913],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-49407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2231","tag-2913"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49407"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=49407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}