Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden(arctictoday.com) |
Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden(arctictoday.com) |
The purchased forest (15k hectares, 37k acres) is therefore ~1.3% of the region.
It's not far from Funäsdalen which is a relatively popular ski resort [1], there are also hiking trails and similar [2].
The seller SCA is Europe's biggest private forest owner and owns 2.7 million hectares by the way.
[0] https://maps.app.goo.gl/hQp2Rw9tM6kWTuTdA
[1] https://funasdalen.se/en/winter/skiing/cross-country-skiing/
Billionaires associated with that company especially.
I had no idea Sweden was this cheap. Why wouldn't he drop $22mm on this...
Seems like he could buy all of Sweden's forests if he wanted to.
... Wait
if i had that much money i'd have all sorts of contingencies for myself and my family/friends all over the world. like, why not?
Although I'm not sure what Norway is attempting is actually working - similar to what we see with carbon credits essentially showing no material decrease in greenhouse gas emission growth. Indonesia is going through some of the worst wildfires ever experienced in human history at the moment. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cqevw9y34y34t
Given the current turmoil, building a bunker in the Swedish forest would be like building your porch underneath a tree with 50 beehives.
Is it just that when you're worth billions, hoardings thousands of Steam games you'll never play isn't enough?
Forest in particular could well be pure investment though, it's not even a weird one, just capital intensive.
I can't recall anything he said or did in the last few years that would make me assume he's done something good for the general public (or the humanity), and not for himself first and foremost.
> Karp made the purchase through his newly registered company Cladonia Skog AB. The chairman of Cladonia told the Swedish newspaper that the land provides valuable habitat for wildlife and space for recreation.
https://fortune.com/well/2023/02/03/billionaire-palantir-ceo...
I suspect the opposite: a billionaire's escape from a potentially turbulent society.
Quite cheap tho!
Karp strikes me as the type of person that would do this "for fun".
that's what helicopters are for.
-zillionaires, probably
https://funasdalen.se/en/winter/skiing/cross-country-skiing/