Humans have made land since antiquity — the Dutch poldered, Boston filled its Back Bay, Dubai dredged the Palm — but every method was expensive enough that land stayed effectively scarce. Roughly 600,000 acres of artificial land since 2000, about the size of Luxembourg, for tens of billions a year. And the ocean takes it back.
AI-optimized porous structures grew more than 90 feet of new beach in six months, not by pumping sand but by telling the ocean where to deposit it.