What is known about the R$1.6 billion bunker that Mark Zuckerberg built in Hawaii

Last December, a long-running investigation by Meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was building a 1,400-acre complex on the Hawaiian island of Kauai that would include a underground shelter measuring more than 1,524 square meters. That’s more than twice the size of the average US family home.

In a recent interview with , Zuckerberg was asked if that underground space was not just a “shelter”, but rather a “doomsday bunker”.

“No, I think it’s like a little shelter,” he told Emily Chang of . “It’s like a basement.”

The investigation suggested that Zuckerberg’s top-secret complex in Hawaii would cost around US$270 million (R$1.67 billion) to build. But the underground shelter would be the with “what appears to be an explosion-resistant door” made of metal and concrete, an “escape hatch that can be accessed via a ladder,” and “its own power and food supplies.”

As she pointed out, almost everyone who worked on the construction of Zuckerberg’s top-secret compound in Hawaii was bound by a strict confidentiality agreementfrom painters to security guards, electricians and carpenters. Sources told the publication that Zuckerberg’s team even hired different construction teams to work on separate projects within the same location – and workers on different teams were prohibited from speaking to each other.

While workers weren’t allowed to share details about the project, anonymous sources told Reuters they speculated that Zuckerberg was building “some kind of post-apocalyptic bunker,” or possibly even “a vast underground city.”

As , it is rumored that many wealthy people have built their own underground facilities and even tunnels in the event of an earth-altering catastrophe, including Microsoft’s Bill Gates, who reportedly has underground areas beneath each of his homes, and Elon Musk, from Tesla.

Meta did not immediately respond to .

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