The Facebook founder is investing in his future by building a $100 million doomsday home in Hawaii. Mark Zuckerberg takes a unique approach to ensuring safety and comfort in the face of global changes and creates his own island reserve bunker.
According to the project, the complex will be located on the island of Kauai and will include several buildings, including two mansions, connected by a tunnel leading to a huge underground bunker with an area of 5,000 square meters.
This bunker will be equipped with an escape hatch and an explosion-proof door, providing a safe haven in the event of a disaster, reports wired.com.
Additional amenities include no fewer than 30 bedrooms and 30 bathrooms, guesthouses and a unique group of 11 “disc-shaped” treehouses connected by rope bridges.
Upon completion of the project, the complex will also include a water tank six meters high and 18 meters in diameter, as well as 1,400 hectares of agricultural land, creating food and energy independence.
Construction of Zuckerberg’s property, called Koolau Ranch, is estimated to cost about $100 million; Combined with the $170 million spent on the land for the property, the total price tag is around $270 million, although that’s likely still an underestimate, according to Wired.
Zuckerberg isn’t the first tech titan to build a house ready for the end of the world. Very rich people prepare for something quickly.
Sam Altman, the ousted and reinstated CEO of OpenAI, has a stockpile of things like weapons, gold, antibiotics and gas masks.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman bought motorcycles, guns and ammunition to prepare to “stay in my house for a while” if necessary, and even had laser eye surgery because he thinks it could improve his chances of survival in a disaster enlarge.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman once told the New Yorker that he estimates that more than half of Silicon Valley’s billionaires have invested in some kind of “apocalypse insurance,” such as an underground bunker.
