He’s building a Zuckerbunker.
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a sprawling $100 million Hawaii compound — complete with an underground bunker and its own food and energy sources — in a secret project suggesting the social media mogul is trying to conceal his doomsday preparations.
The Facebook founder’s complex called Koolau Ranch is already partially constructed and is shaping up to be one of the most expensive personal construction projects in modern history, according to a Wired investigation of property records and interviews with contractors.
The compound on Kauai island will consist of more than a dozen buildings with two central mansions that will be connected by a tunnel that leads to a 5,000-square-foot underground shelter with an escape hatch accessible via a ladder, Wired reported, citing building plans.
The property will house at least 30 bedrooms and 30 bathrooms and will also feature dottings of guest houses and a group of 11 “disk-shaped” treehouses joined together by rope bridges, according to the plans reviewed by the outlet.
The subterranean bunker will hold a living space and mechanical room and feature an apparent “blast-resistant” concrete and steel door, Wired reported.
Other exits and entrances throughout the compound’s buildings will have doors with keypad locks and soundproofing, while the library will feature a secret or “blind” door, according to the construction documents. Cameras are already “everywhere,” according to one worker and the plans show that one smaller ranch building has more than 20 cameras alone, the tech publication reported.
Koolau Ranch has another feature showing the Meta CEO may be planning for some sort of apocalypse.
According to Wired’s sources and construction plans, the builders hope to make it completely self-sufficient. A water tank — 55 feet in diameter and 18 feet tall — along with a pump system will be housed on the property, where existing ranching and agriculture on the 1,400 acres already provide food sources.
Zuckerberg has built a 6-foot wall around the compound and has all his contracted workers, no matter their level or involvement, sign NDAs regarding their work on the property, according to Wired.
The billionaire spent $170 million to purchase the land to build his ranch, which he, his wife and kids view as their family home, a spokesperson for Zuckerberg told Wired.
Meta did not immediately return a request for comment.