He's probably buying it so that he can ski through miles of virgin forest with his Norwegian bodyguards. I hate this weirdo but he's probably not going to do much to the landscape.
Trying to buy himself back into heaven, like Bill Gates did. We only have the article's quotation for evidence, but it does say:
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.
Why does it quote 37,000 acres, then show a picture with a large swath of Sweden highlighted as if that is the area purchased - though Sweden is approximately 111 million acres of land, so this would be 0.003% of the land, so nowhere near the representation in this picture - seem disingenuous to me.
That’s a strange map in the article. It makes it looks like he’s bought all of Härjedalen, rather than two orders of magnitude less. It’s still a chunky piece of land, but it’s definitely not that big.
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, purchased 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) of forest in Härjedalen, Sweden, for 235 million kronor ($22 million).
Seems like he could buy all of Sweden's forests if he wanted to?
Assuming this is for conservation, it's hard to find reasons this is a bad thing.
agreed
This is where he will build 50 silos
He's probably buying it so that he can ski through miles of virgin forest with his Norwegian bodyguards. I hate this weirdo but he's probably not going to do much to the landscape.
They probably already have nano technology
Why would Alex Karp randomly buy Swedish forest for conservation?
It is well known he loves to nordic ski
https://fortune.com/well/2023/02/03/billionaire-palantir-ceo...
Skiing. He arranges his life around Nordic skiing to an incredible degree.
Ok that makes a lot more sense
I don't really know anything about skiing, but can you do that in a virgin old-growth forest?
Trying to buy himself back into heaven, like Bill Gates did. We only have the article's quotation for evidence, but it does say:
He plans to create a ground for hunting humans, a la "The Most Dangerous Game".
Why would you assume that?
$600/acre for timber forest???
I had no idea Sweden was this cheap. Why wouldn't he drop $22mm on this...
Guessing it's more expensive if you're buying less, otherwise I kinda want to buy 4 acres.
Perhaps there's a reason Sweden wants him to have all of this land.
Why does it quote 37,000 acres, then show a picture with a large swath of Sweden highlighted as if that is the area purchased - though Sweden is approximately 111 million acres of land, so this would be 0.003% of the land, so nowhere near the representation in this picture - seem disingenuous to me.
That’s a strange map in the article. It makes it looks like he’s bought all of Härjedalen, rather than two orders of magnitude less. It’s still a chunky piece of land, but it’s definitely not that big.
Note that the red area on the map in the article is Härjedalen, which has an area of 11,405 km^2, 1.1M hectares, 2.8M acres.
The purchased forest (15k hectares, 37k acres) is therefore ~1.3% of the region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4rjedalen
Seems like he could buy all of Sweden's forests if he wanted to?