The Sahara is typically represented as a vast space of barren lands, degraded ecologies, and ungoverned territories. Political and literary discourses as well as cartographic representations depicts the Sahara as one monolithic and homogeneous desert that form a 'barrier, bridge, or borderland' on the global scale. These dominant geographical tropes, often betraying a form of environmental orientalism, obfuscate the diverse political ecologies of resource extraction, transnational energy projects and urbanization processes, as well as the ways these projects are implicated in regional and global geopolitics. This paper argues that these different projects of space making are, not only interdependent and constitutive of state power, but more importantly, articulating new formations of power across multiple socio-spatial scales, from the local and regional to the national and global. Therefore, paying due attention to the spatiality and materiality of these projects, we argue, enables a more nuanced understanding of the constitution and the working of political power as well as the production of uneven spatial development. In the context of critical geography, there has been recent calls for ‘provincializing’ theory to account for non-western and postcolonial environmental and urban conditions. This paper will employ an urban political ecology approach to the study of the 'non-urban' hinterlands of the Sahara to examine the multifarious relations between ‘landscapes of energy’ and processes of urbanization across multiple scales, ecological conditions, and sociopolitical formations. Our research focuses on case studies of special economic zones, exploration concessions, socio-technical arrangements, mega-engineering and infrastructural schemes, as well as enclave urban developments. Furthermore, this paper argues that the dominant ‘urban age’ discourse illustrates that “[i]n a world where it has almost become commonplace to talk about power as networked or concentrated, distributed or centralized, even decentred, deterritorialized or radically dispersed, it is all too easy to miss the diverse geographies of power that put us in place.” (Allen, John. Lost Geographies of Power. 2008. 1-2) By employing mappings, diagrams, cartographic representations and historical analyses this paper renders visible the latent territories of power in the seemingly ‘remote’ Sahara. By doing so, the aim is to shift the discussion on power beyond the existing discourses of state sovereignty and rentier states and economies to encompass the territorialized geographies of energy and urbanization as the medium through which power is both constituted and practiced.