Planned Saudi megacity 'The Line', designed for 9 million people across 170km, could be redesigned as a far smaller data center

Saudi Arabia Linear City.

• Saudi Arabia may swap residential plans for an industrial and AI focus
• The desert nation is investing heavily in GPUs for state-backed AI facilities
• Coastal access offers potential seawater cooling for desert data centers

Saudi Arabia’s Neom project, known as "The Line", was originally described as a linear urban development stretching roughly 170km across the desert.