According to a lengthy Wired investigation published in December, Meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was in the process of building a 1,400-acre compound on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, which would include an underground shelter spanning over 5,000 square feet. That is more than double the size of the average private family home in the United States.
In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Zuckerberg was asked if the underground space was more than just a “shelter,” but also a “doomsday bunker.”
“No, I think that is just like a little shelter,” he told Bloomberg’s Emily Chang. “It is like a basement.”
According to Wired’s investigation, Zuckerberg’s top-secret Hawaiian compound would cost approximately $270 million to build. However, the underground shelter would be the highlight, with “what appears to be a blast-resistant door” made of metal and concrete, a “escape hatch that can be accessed via a ladder,” and “its own energy and food supplies.”
According to Wired, almost everyone who worked on the construction of Zuckerberg’s top-secret Hawaii compound, including painters, security guards, electricians, and carpenters, was required to sign a strict nondisclosure agreement.
According to sources who spoke with the tech publication, Zuckerberg’s team even hired different construction crews to work on separate projects on the same site—and workers from different crews were forbidden from speaking with one another.
While employees were not permitted to discuss the project, anonymous sources told Wired that Zuckerberg was building “some sort of postapocalyptic bunker,” or possibly “a vast underground city.”
According to the New York Post, many wealthy individuals, including Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Tesla’s Elon Musk, are rumored to have built their own underground facilities and even tunnels in the event of an earth-changing disaster.
