Hi guys Charlie here humans are capable of building amazing projects that can change
the world but what happens when these mega projects go horribly wrong from a dam with a
design flaw that caused it to fail to an entire city which has zero people living in it these
mega projects wasted billions of dollars caused political turmoil and even ruined people's lives
here are some useless mega projects that wasted billions forest city malaysia have you ever wanted
to live in a forest but did not want to have to battle snakes and monkeys every time you went to
take out your recycling well then maybe consider a move to malaysia forest city in malaysia
was supposed to be a green energy futuristic smart city the city comprises of four islands
the city's ecosystem will be that of an artificial forest for many years investors flooded into this
city that's because it was incredibly near to singapore singapore is one of the fastest
growing economies in the world a nearby bridge and a special immigration policy allows people to move
freely from forest city to singapore roads and rooftops will all be jungle themed and the city
will be powered using renewable energy it is set to be finished in 2035 and so far has cost
over 100 billion dollars the city is complete with apartments amazing beaches swimming pools
sports facilities and even arenas there are even golf courses and a grand town hall too but in
2020 the harsh reality of the forest city set in and what was presented like a green utopia soon
turned into a nightmare one of the main issues is the project's funding it is funded almost
entirely by china as part of the deal chinese businesses and individuals were able to buy any
amount of apartments and houses in the forest city so chinese investors flooded into malaysia to buy
up the forest city eighty percent of the property owners are chinese and they don't even live there
they just bought it as an investment this means that the city is very empty it also does not seem
like malaysia more like china the street signs are in mandarin and the schools teach in mandarin too
this was to attract more chinese investors the native malaysian people can't afford to outbid
the chinese investors that's because the property prices are set by chinese standards not malaysian
standards this outraged the local community some even said the project was like colonialism but
then malaysia got a new prime minister mahathir mohammad he made a new law making it illegal for
foreign people to own property in the forest city this caused the foreign investors to leave but
it also dissuaded many malaysian investors that's because all of the house's values went down a lot
so now the forest city is basically empty right now there's less than 500 people living there to
put this into perspective forest city was made for 700 000 people this means the city is only at 0.07
capacity also country garden the company behind forest city has laid off more than 1 000 workers
since last year so what was supposed to be a jungle themed smart city turned out to be
a massive waste of money that's over 100 billion dollars down the drain vc summer nuclear station
one of the most difficult things to build are nuclear power plants a lot can go wrong and a
good example of this is vc summon nuclear station in south carolina this power plant was scheduled
to be built in 2008. two massive energy companies invested nine billion dollars into the project
construction began in 2013 but already there were tons of delays but by 2014 there were
already major problems incompetence and errors caused the construction to be delayed by 2017 the
project was still not finished and they had spent 25 billion dollars that is 16 billion dollars more
than their budget and it wasn't even finished yet this caused various companies to go bankrupt
and a few months later the project was abandoned it was known as the nuke gate scandal and so
far there have been three arrests made this is because of the fraud and corruption that went on
not only from the companies working on the projects but from government officials too
there have also been many billion dollar lawsuits over the failed project
napierda myanmar in 2002 the government of myanmar began building a new capital city in secret it is
very unusual for a country to shift their capital city in 2005 the president of myanmar revealed his
plans but he kept the name of the city a secret but it was later revealed as napierda this means
the king's residence myanmar's old capital city named yangon was near the sea and some speculated
that they feared an attack from the sea so they decided to make their new capital city more inland
so far the new capital city has cost 4 billion dollars it has pretty much everything any city
could ever need there are many houses apartments and hotels there is a massive 20 lane highway
there are museums sports stadiums and golf courses and even various replicas of landmarks from around
myanmar the only thing missing is the people if you go to this capital city you may assume it's
a ghost town there is absolutely no one living there but why does no one want to live here
well there are barely any jobs or schools without any opportunities no one wants to move here the
city looks incredibly creepy as it's totally deserted the city has an airport which can handle
millions of passengers every year but only around 10 people actually go inside this airport each day
there are far more staff in the airport than passengers all of these shops are filled with
products but are totally empty before we move on make sure you subscribe and press the bell too
it really does help me out auroville damn the oroville dam can be found in north california
usa the dam was meant to prevent floods power california using hydroelectricity
and also be a source of drinkable water for the residents of california for some years the
dam did work as intended but in february of 2017 everything changed in 2017 california experienced
some of its worst floods ever this caused the water levels of the dam to rise dramatically
eventually the dam began to overflow going over the emergency spill line the base of the dam then
began to erode there was a serious possibility the dam would fail and the cities nearby would flood
eventually they ordered an evacuation of the area over 188 000 people had to evacuate their homes
eventually the water levels did drop down but this was not before causing a lot of chaos
interstate h3 hawaii this highway located in hawaii is one of the most picturesque roads in the
world so you may be asking what's wrong with it well the estimated budget was 250 million dollars
but the actual cost was more than 1.3 billion each kilometer of the road cost
around 50 million dollars making this the most expensive road ever built by kilometer critics
also say this road is pointless it was built to connect pearl harbor to a marine corps base
but this connection is no longer that necessary also many native hawaiians do not use this road
they consider it to be cursed that's because many ancient religious sites were destroyed during its
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