Mark Zuckerberg has broken his silence on rumors he’s built a 5000-square-foot ‘Doomsday bunker’ underneath his sprawling $270,000,000 home.
The Facebook CEO has a net worth of around $207.4 billion, according to Forbes, and a ginormous mansion (or two) on a remote island to prove it.
Although originally from New York, Zuckerberg purchased 700 acres of land on the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 2014 for around $170 million.
In the years that followed, the tech and social media boss bought even more land with a vision to build a 1,400-acre compound called Koolau Ranch, and the price tag of $270 millions makes it one of the most expensive properties in the world.
Zuckerberg has been tight lipped about his project and its privacy.
According to an investigation and documents seen by Wired last year that detailed plans for the then-partially constructed estate, the entire complex is blocked off by a six-foot wall and is monitored by security – and no one working on the project is reportedly allowed to talk about it, with contractors made to sign NDAs.
Still, rumors have snowballed about what’s going on over there, while sneak peeks at the plans have revealed the partially completed compound has 30 bedrooms, 30 bathrooms, two mansions and all the usual trimmings – gyms, pools, sauna, hot tub, tennis courts, cold plunges and… an ‘Ewok village’, with the total floor area spanning 57,000 square feet – the size of a professional football field.
The plans also revealed the 40-year-old’s two mansions will be ‘joined by a tunnel’ that ‘branches off into a 5,000-square-foot underground shelter’, equipped with soundproofed chambers and hidden doors that you’d see in a modern bomb shelter, or an apocalyptic sci-fi movie.
The bunker would have a living space, a mechanical room and an escape hatch that can be accessed with a ladder while a blast proof door would be made from concrete and metal.
Now, Zuckerberg has lifted the lid on whether the reports are true and if he actually has a massive Doomsday shelter in an interview with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang.
Chang asked him whether he had a bunker under his compound, to which he said: “No, I think that’s just like a little shelter. It’s like a basement.
“We have the basic house that we built, and we built an office out there because I work out there. There’s a bunch of storage space, whatever you want to call it, a hurricane shelter or whatever.
“I think it got blown out of proportion as if the whole ranch was some kind of Doomsday bunker, which is just not true.”
Zuckerberg isn’t the only one to have reportedly started prepping for the end of the world with Kim Kardashian, Shaquille O’Neal, Tom Cruise and Bill Gates all rumoured to have build some kind of bunker or safe room.
