Top 15 Humanity's Costliest Builds Unveiled

5. Hinkley Point C

Place: Somerset, UK. Approximately $32 billion was spent overall. Year Completed: 2026 The power facility at Hinkley Point C, which is now under construction, will rank among the biggest nuclear plants in the world. Construction financing was supplied by EDF, a state-owned company mostly held by French citizens. Following that, in 2015, the Chinese state-owned company CGN consented to invest roughly one-third of the project's total cost.

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Hinkley Point C/SShutterstock ©jgolby With a sixty-year lifespan, the Hinkley Point C power station is likely to continue producing jobs for years to come. By 2020, the project had already created 10,300 jobs, and it is anticipated that it will ultimately create at least another 15,000 jobs. It is not surprising, given that the facility will eventually be larger than eight hundred football fields. It is anticipated that this project will take an additional five years to finish.

6. The AVE High-Speed Rail System

Where: Madrid, Spain * Total Expensed: $1.69 billion Year Completed: 1992 The Spanish state-owned Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) High-Speed Rail Network began passenger service in 1992 and has been progressively growing ever since. In each of the four years before 2020, the AVE High-Speed Rail Network—which can reach up to 192 mph—assisted over twenty million travelers in reaching their destinations annually. Because of the travel limitations, the numbers for 2020 are anticipated to be significantly fewer than usual.

Shutterstock and the AVE High-Speed Rail Network @pedrosala Ten additional high-speed rail lines are presently being built, making the network in Spain the largest in Europe and the second largest globally, after China. Several of these routes should be operational within the next three years.