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Buying land to transfer wealth before AI bubble bursts.
Keep this creepy cunt off of our continent.
37000 Acre = 149.73 km² or 14973.37 ha
Swedish sources state its 150 km² flat. He (or well, his company) paid 240 million SEK (~$20M USD) for the property which is mostly forrest free due to elevation. Buying that kind of property for "forestry" sure sounds like a thinly veiled lie.
An example of 90km².
Where’s the banana?
It's in the center, someone's holding it up in the town square.
its KARP.
Small country
Smart move. With the deepening climate collapse (also caused by his company ;-), land in the north will increase in value. Already today, many Europeans are refocusing their vacstion destinations; from the south of France to Scandinavia.
Unless AMOC collapses.
Foreign ownership, baby! I don't need to be a citizen, I just need to buy your government. And I can!! /s
Isn't wealth neat!
Probably for a post-apocalypse bunker that can be used as a hunting lodge for poor people before that.
Could you please clarify: a hunting lodge where poor people stay, or a lodge for the hunting of poor people? /s
For hunting of poor people.
Yeah... This is the face of a guy hunting humans on that land. He probably got the land there instead of a more private island somewhere remote in order to have lower latency to drones in Ukraine.
he looks like eats humans too. being the thiels apostate that is.
I wonder if he knows about Allemansrätten.
I bet he will just flatten all of Härjedalen for his data centers.
Either that or he has found the location for his post apocalyptic bunker
Since America gets blamed for all these foreign born billionaires I can say fuck Sweden, Sweden is the exact type of shit hole that would slow these shut peoole in.
trying to copy THIEL his master, but he got chased out of NZ for doing the same thing. thiel wanted his harem of young males.
So maybe people don’t want to hear this but as a hunter I have to say this area is likely to become a wildlife disaster.
If humans are a regular predator and the predator is removed the fight for food resources among the prey species is going to result in a lot of animal deaths and suffering. This will cause ecological devastation to the area, waste meat that humans would have used, and potentially cause other shifts in wildlife that are harder to predict.
The government, in addition to taxing this land heavily, should procure an easement for hunters to maintain ecological stability.
If this guy is planning to tear everything down and install data centers out there we should build a rocket and yeet him into the sun.
Yeeting him out of the solar system takes less energy.
lol ok let’s do it your way!
Outer Wilds taught me that it's actually quite easy to fly into the sun.
finally i can use a bookmark :D
This guy tells why its not that easy: https://lemmy.world/comment/24689663