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“'We’re currently in project planning,' Levy said. 'We’ll need not only approvals, but additional funding to advance the environmental review processes, both in the U.S. and Canada in the future, and similar to other large megaprojects, large-scale projects...'"
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Leaders from across the Pacific Northwest recently gathered at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference in Seattle and reaffirmed their commitment to building high-speed rail linking the corridor from Portland to Seattle to Vancouver, B.C.

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Cascadia Forges Ahead on High-Speed Rail Despite Headwinds » The Urbanist
# Leaders from across the Pacific Northwest recently gathered at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference in Seattle and reaffirmed their commitment to building high-speed rail linking the corridor...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
ndhapple.bsky.social
Nilo pls let’s be serious why would you ever want to have a rolling program of electrification instead of stop-start-constantly-rescoped half-built megaprojects
November 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
cargie.baby
theme parks,mr beast, fraud and corruption, doomed celebrity megaprojects,saudi arabia, youtubers will find this very ... feastable
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
torrancecoste.bsky.social
Not enough money for a robust public service or support for migrants, but countless billions for megaprojects and the military.

Progressive, liberal Canada in 2025.

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Canada’s proposed budget sees deficit rise to $78B. Here’s what to know about the Carney government’s plans | CBC
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November 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
horadam.bsky.social
What’s less clear, but highly plausible, is the narrative goes national and scares other states off taking on ratebased energy megaprojects.

Which means the federal backstop for new nuke plants would need to be quite a bit stronger...probably even more than was contemplated as of 24 hours ago.

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November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
alainchen03.bsky.social
Your post exposes how “futuristic” visions like The Line rely on invisible, disposable labor. The contradiction between utopian design and dystopian working conditions shows how megaprojects reproduce global hierarchies under a techno-modern façade.
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 AM
stephenjacobsmith.com
Yeah and they could also work on non-megaprojects…like he says Cuomo was right to cut the L train bench wall demolition. But what if instead of relying on “Columbia engineers” that the governor tracked down to get a second opinion, the MTA just had that technical capacity in-house to…
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
gaykwon.bsky.social
Gulf state megaprojects just get stupider and stupider. This seriously fucking sucks.
Saudi Arabia's 'sky stadium', a football pitch 350 metres above the desert? What we know so far 'Sky stadium' set to host matches for the 2034 FIFA World Cup, will seat 46,000: Report Last updated: October 28, 2025 | 09:27 Jay Hilotin, Senior Assistant Editor Saudi Arabia's NEOM Stadium, part of the ambitious NEOM project, will be the world's first "sky stadium," suspended 350 meters above the desert, according to construction industry media.
October 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
minibubbly.bsky.social
#Manitoba plans 3 megaprojects that could generate combined $30B in economic activity, premier says

One is Churchill port expansion that requires federal cash; Kinew won't name other 2

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Manitoba plans 3 megaprojects that could generate combined $30B in economic activity, premier says | CBC News
Premier Wab Kinew says Manitoba is planning three energy projects that could generate $30 billion in new economic activity — a value equal to more than a third of the province’s existing gross domesti...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
garius.bsky.social
What SHOULD be happening is that eaay value megaprojects in London are used to create the skills and industrial capacity to then ALSO deliver transformational projects elsewhere.

Instead, every time, we just piss the industrial gain away. Utter waste.
October 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
bkives.bsky.social
Manitoba plans 3 megaprojects that could generate combined $30B in economic activity, premier says www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Manitoba plans 3 megaprojects that could generate combined $30B in economic activity, premier says | CBC News
Premier Wab Kinew says Manitoba is planning three energy projects that could generate $30 billion in new economic activity — a value equal to more than a third of the province’s existing gross domesti...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
lidi5.org
Joshua McNichols of KUOW says these huge projects start as small ideas. How did it happen in Boston? Ian says in hindsight, transformative projects seem inevitable, even though there are many points where the project could have died. There is a survivor bias for megaprojects.
October 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
jonathanmaus.bsky.social
This follows ODOT shuttering their Urban Mobility Office (tasked w implementing megaprojects including IBR, I-5 RQ, etc..) and the UMO Office Director Tiffani Penson resigning from her role earlier this month.
October 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
What stands out is the contrast with Tatu City. Konza shows how state-led megaprojects can stall under bureaucracy, while privately built cities sometimes move faster because investors demand progress. Its not just about tech or infrastructure, but also governance models. #newcities
Billions in Idle Tech Undermine Konza Smart City’s Ambitions
Konza Technopolis, is sitting on billions of shillings in idle technology equipment as major infrastructure projects drag on.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
alexckaufman.bsky.social
China's megaprojects dazzle the world but its distributed energy generation is shattering records and teeing up a fundamental contradiction: the more its electricity production decentralizes, the more the control of its grid must be centralized.

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October 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
raders.bsky.social
I'm all for incremental development (I helped pass the most ambitious MMH program in the country!) but I gotta say, Mahron's quasi-fanatical devotion to localism is very odd. Yes, highway megaprojects are bad—but so is NIMBYism! Lionization of local control is exactly what created the housing crisis
September 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
ashcan.bsky.social
trying to understand ea's offered owners got me back to reading about the saudi arabian megaprojects and god, it's just unbelievably fucked up. they will make a stupid Ozymandias city that doesn't exist and force you out of your home for it, and if you resist they shoot you in the head
Neom's construction has also been criticised for environmental and human rights violations, with expatriate employees describing abusive working conditions and members of the local Howeitat tribe protesting against their forced expulsion.[13][14] Around 20,000 people are expected to be forcibly relocated.[15] Members of the Howeitat tribe have been killed resisting evictions, including Abdul Rahim al-Huwaiti who was killed by Saudi security forces under disputed circumstances.[16] Three other members of the tribe were also sentenced to death for resisting evictions.[17]
September 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
machaindearg.bsky.social
Simon Whistler, does a bunch of YouTube channels on a range of topics, used to host Toptenz until the creators fucked it up and he left. His yt channels include Megaprojects, into the shadows and the Casual Criminalist. He'd be a better presenter if he didn't laugh all the time.
September 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM
akassiam.bsky.social
#NewCities NEOM’s management pitfalls reflect wider pitfalls of state-led megaprojects. MBS recruited world-class planners with salaries too high to refuse. Doubt or resistance was discouraged, and design was driven by spectacle rather than practicality.
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Neom, Pt 2: The Emperor’s New Clothes
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September 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
alonlevy.bsky.social
It's not because they randomly arrest foreign business travelers! It's because they're horrifically bad at project management, and buy things for prestige rather than utility. Everything I read about infrastructure megaprojects in the Gulf makes me think they're even worse than the US.
September 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
edzitron.com
The Venture Capital and Private Credit industry CANNOT afford the $250bn+ that OpenAI needs to fulfil their contract with Oracle, and at the current pace, *all* US venture capital will be exhausted in the next six quarters, if not faster.
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There Is Not Enough Money To Fund OpenAI A few weeks ago, The Information quoted VC Jon Sakoda as saying that venture capital would effectively run out if invested at the current rates: I'm not going to elucidate much further: venture capital cannot fund OpenAI, and I do not believe that private capital will do so either. Before anyone says “but the Saudis,” let me point out that Saudi Arabia is massively curtailing its spending — particularly on insane, speculative megaprojects like The Line — in part because some of its previous investments haven’t quite delivered, but also because said spending was based, in part, on the expectation of high oil prices. Saudi Arabia is also cutting back on welfare and subsidies for its citizens, in part because the country is trying to shift away from being a petrostate, but also because said perks were based on the expectation that oil would remain at a certain price, which they haven’t. While it’s plausible that MBS might be inclined to chuck Sam Altman the odd $10bn or whatever, the idea that he would be able to subsidize the insane costs of its projected compute is, simply put, laughable. But let’s put that aside. I'm being kind in this scenario and assuming that OpenAI gets $20 billion on top of this free cash flow analysis, just to be nice. 2025 - $13 billion of revenue, $0 of Oracle spend, burn of $9 billion. 2026 - $30 billion of revenue, $0 of Oracle spend, burn of $17 billion. 2027 - $60 billion of revenue, burn of $61 billion ($35 billion base burn, $26 billion of compute costs from Oracle). 2028 - $100 billion of revenue, burn of $107 billion ($47 billion base burn, $60 billion of compute costs from Oracle). 2029 - $145 billion of revenue, burn of $102 billion ($8 billion base burn, $94 billion of compute costs from Oracle). In its final — and allegedly profitable — year, OpenAI will likely spend $120 billion on compute. I think it’s full of shit on a number of levels. In any case, this means that OpenAI will need at least $250 billion in funding in the space of four years, starting next year. In its current position, OpenAI cannot afford to honor this contract, and I do not understand how it is fiscally responsible for Oracle to have agreed to this deal. In the history of everything, I can only find mergers and acquisitions that would come close to the scale that OpenAI needs, such as the Vodafone acquisition of Mannesmann ($180 billion, and it was a weird merger), or SoftBank's massive $108 billion Vision Fund 2, which invested in OpenAI. The AOL-Time Warner merger — which saw the latter valued at $183 billion — is perhaps the best example of a deal on the scale of the OpenAI-Oracle compute arrangement, but that was an all-stock deal that saw existing shareholders see their holdings exchanged with equity in the new combined business. No money actually changed hands, and so, it’s not really a proper comparison. This is unprecedented, both in its scale and implausibility.
September 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social
Also look into the project management lit on cost overruns on megaprojects eprhaps
November 16, 2023 at 1:26 PM
edenbloom.bsky.social
#Detroit local work in #resisting TIFs and Megaprojects lifted up in @npquarterly.bsky.social 🙏🏻💙🔥 nonprofitquarterly.org/how-to-stop-...
How to Stop TIFs and Megaprojects: Stories from the Field - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
Across the country, residents are forming community coalitions to regain public control of the local development process. Two stories from Detroit and Philadelphia show how.
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March 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
danielaldrich.bsky.social
New #article from Xue et al: Configurational Effects of Social Capital and Dynamic Capability on Project Resilience in Megaprojects
TL;DR: The findings verify the complementary effect of social capital and dynamic capabilities on project resilience
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March 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM