Insfrastruktur world

Nations are abandoning their capitals and building new ones from scratch: the five biggest new-capital projects heading for 2035, from Indonesia's forest city Nusantara to Egypt's desert capital and Myanmar's surreal Naypyidaw. A countdown of the boldest urban gambles on Earth.

From Tibet's thin air to Brazil's secret test fields, we rank the five longest runways ever built — five and a half kilometers of concrete and counting. Discover why the longest runway in the Americas exists for testing, not passengers, and why Denver's giant strip doesn't even crack the top five.

From Milford Haven in Wales to the Texas coast and the deserts of Qatar, these are the five largest LNG terminals powering 2027. Cold ships, giant tanks, and the ports that decide who stays warm when winter bites.

Invisible highways under the sea: the five subsea power cables set to connect continents by 2028, including three links plugging directly into Britain and the audacious Morocco-to-UK Xlinks project. A countdown of the cables that will let nations trade clean power the way they once traded oil.

Water, gravity, and mountains: the five largest pumped-storage hydro plants on Earth, from Japan's hidden Okutataragi to Virginia's Bath County and China's record-breaking Fengning. These giant water batteries already store more electricity than every other battery on the planet combined, and they will be the backbone of the grid as wind and solar grow toward 2030.

Canals longer than some countries — the five megaprojects moving water across entire continents.

Tapping the Earth's own heat — the five biggest geothermal power stations running today.

Lava barriers, ash-proof roofs and eruption sensors — the engineering that stares down live volcanoes.

Floating cities carrying nearly ten thousand people — the five biggest cruise ships in history, ranked.

NEOM, Nusantara and the cities being built from scratch around artificial intelligence and clean energy.

Terabit speeds and space-based networks — the five nations building the sixth generation of wireless.

Trains that float at six hundred kilometers an hour — the maglev projects that could redefine rail travel.

Turning ocean into drinking water at planetary scale — the five biggest desalination plants on Earth.

Beneath the Alps and under the sea — the five longest tunnels humans have ever bored through the Earth.

From the South China Sea to Dubai, the nations manufacturing brand-new land out of the ocean.

Stargate, Colossus and the gigawatt campuses being built to feed the artificial intelligence boom.

Trillions of dollars in metals lie on the ocean floor — these are the five projects diving deepest to reach them.

The United States, China, the United Kingdom and more — which nation will switch on a miniature star first?

Istanbul, Dubai, Doha and beyond — the five airport megaprojects racing to handle the future of flight.

From base isolators to skyscrapers that sway like trees, we count down the five most astonishing earthquake-proof structures standing in twenty twenty-six.

The world's biggest arenas are getting even bigger. We count down the five largest stadiums under construction, opening by twenty twenty-eight.

Quantum computers could crack problems no classical machine can touch. We count down the five countries leading the quantum race right now.

Green hydrogen could be the fuel of the future. We count down the five biggest hydrogen megaprojects racing to make it real by twenty thirty.

Skyscrapers that grow food instead of housing offices. We count down the five biggest vertical farms set to feed cities by twenty thirty.