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10 Biggest MEGA PROJECTS in The World:

These are the 10 most audacious engineering projects currently reshaping our planet: A 🧵

1/10 Forest City (Malaysia)

- $100 billion luxury city project
- Planned for 700,000 residents
- Currently largely uninhabited (only a few thousand residents)
- Apartment prices rose from $170,000 to $1.14 million
- Built on artificial islands near Singapore

2/10 The Line (Saudi Arabia)

- $725 billion linear city project
- 110 miles long, 1,600 ft tall mirrored buildings
- Planned for 9 million residents
- Zero-carbon city with high-speed underground transport
- Construction began in 2022

3/10 Tesla Gigafactories

- Largest facility in Reno, Nevada (15 million sq ft when complete)
- Additional factories in New York, Texas, Shanghai, and Berlin
- Run on renewable energy
- Part of the plan for 100 gigafactories worldwide
- Nevada facility currently 30% complete

4/10 Jubail Industrial City (Saudi Arabia)

- World's largest industrial city
- Jubail 2 expansion doubles the original size
- Houses 120,000 residents
- $22 billion total investment
- Completion expected by 2024

5/10 Lusail City (Qatar)

- $45 billion new city development
- Built for 2022 World Cup
- Will house 450,000 people
- Features world's largest water park (Aquatar)
- Includes iconic Lusail Stadium

6/10 Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

- $5 billion hydroelectric dam project
- Largest hydropower dam in Africa
- Built on Blue Nile River
- Source of regional tension
- Aims to provide electricity to Ethiopia

7/10 Hinkley Point C (UK)

- £25 billion nuclear power plant
- Will power 6 million homes
- Twin reactor facility
- 3,260 megawatt capacity
- Delayed by COVID-19

8/10 South-North Water Transfer Project (China)

- $62 billion water diversion project
- Will transfer 44.8 billion cubic meters annually
- Links China's four main rivers
- Three major canal routes
- 50-year construction timeline

9/10 Petronas Towers (Malaysia)

- Twin skyscrapers standing 1,483 ft tall
- Cost: $1.6 billion
- World's tallest twin towers
- Features the world's highest two-story bridge between the 41st-42nd floors
- Postmodern Islamic architecture by César Pelli

10/10 Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)

- $6.8 billion luxury casino resort
- Features 2,500-room hotel, convention center, mall, museum
- The Casino has 500 tables and 1,600 slot machines
- Iconic SkyPark with 1,100 ft skyway and infinity pool
- World's most expensive standalone resort

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