Wow that's ugly (the Saudi hotel not the wind turbine). Totally worth demolishing an ancient fort and levelling the hill it stood on to make room for it. Saudi seems to have no interest at all in preserving any heritage or significant sites.

Newest build turbines are 220m diameter, so 50% larger than that. Those will be used on the Dogger Bank windfarm that, IIRC starts construction next year. I dread to think what will be a state of the art diameter in 2029.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/01/worlds-l...