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Saudi Arabia ditches its linear city dream to build an AI data center (www.techradar.com)

submitted 1 day ago by ooli3@sopuli.xyz to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Someone produced a puff piece about the line and how it’s transformed Saudi Arabia. It’s biased (so keep that in mind) but it’s also well produced and answers some questions retroactively on why the Line was so important to SA even if it failed to become reality. It’s worth a watch:

https://youtu.be/bOG4qCx0peA