Elon Musk at the memorial ceremony honoring Charlie Kirk, held at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on September 21, 2025. BRIAN SNYDER / REUTERS
A tunnel beneath the Bering Strait linking Siberia and Alaska – that’s the latest idea put forward by Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian sovereign wealth fund, who wants to entrust the construction to Elon Musk and his tunnel company, The Boring Company. Dmitriev, an adviser to President Vladimir Putin, believes the entrepreneur’s ingenuity could reduce the cost from $65 billion (€56 billion) to $8 billion.
The world’s richest man may have emerged battered from his stint in politics in June, after his time leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under US President Donald Trump, but he continues to fascinate. Especially with his wildest projects: colonizing Mars, controlling the brain via Neuralink or, in this case, this absurd tunnel. The proposed infrastructure would come out near Nome, a gold rush town in Alaska that remains completely isolated, some 850 kilometers from Anchorage, and would ultimately serve only to move military troops – arguably the best argument not to build it.
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