Mark Zuckerberg calls massive bunker in Hawaii ‘a small shelter’

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Mark Zuckerberg took a moment to address claims that he is building a massive bunker under his Hawaii compound.

While talking to Bloombergthe Meta CEO was asked about THE CABLE report from last year that found he would have a 5,000 square meter bunker during his Kauai property.

“It’s like a little shelter,” he told The Circuit’s Emily Chang. “Whatever you want to call it, hurricane shelter whatever. I think it was blown out of proportion like the whole ranch was some kind of doomsday bunker, which is just not true.”

He also explained that he and wife Priscilla Chan’s facility in Hawaii is dedicated to ranching, and his goal was to “try to create the highest quality beef in the world.”

“The Kauai thing is really fun,” he said. “We have this whole vertical integration plan where we grow macadamia nuts to feed macadamia nuts and we brew beer because it helps them eat more. It’s fun.”

After news of Zuckerberg’s pile broke, other one-percenters followed suit. Those who can afford to do whatever they can for self-preservation are doing so more than ever in times of escalating armed conflicts around the world and mass shootings closer to home.

“It got really busy and it seems the phone hasn’t stopped ringing; World War 3 seems to be coming,” Ron Hubbard, CEO of Texas-based Atlas Survival Shelters told The Hollywood Reporter in a story published in February. He added that the tech CEO’s bunker news “caused a buying frenzy.”

Robert Vicino, the founder of Del Mar, Calif.-based Vivos, which creates underground survival shelters, echoed Hubbard’s sentiments. “Now that Zuckerberg has let the cat out of the bag, it’s made other people who share his status or are close to his status think, ‘Oh God, if he’s doing that, maybe he knows something that I don’t , maybe I should look this up myself,” he said at the time.

In addition to the massive bunker, Zuckerberg’s $100 million facility, which is about 1,400 acres and known as Koolau Ranch, will have its own energy and food supplies, according to THE CABLE. When combined with the land purchase, it will ultimately cost more than $270 million.

In its investigation published in December 2023, the publication found that the project has relied on legal maneuvering and political networking, as well as sometimes showing disregard for the local public, some sources believe.