Born: Oct. 2, 1967 – grew up in Philadelphia
Business: Palantir Technologies
Headquartered: recently moved earlier this year from Denver, Colorado to Aventura, a Miami-area suburb
Current Net Worth: $14.3 billion (according to Forbes)
Resides: Lyman, New Hampshire
Alex Karp is the CEO of Palantir Technologies, a controversial big data analytics company. Founded in 2003 by Karp, Stephen Cohen, Nathan Gettings, Joe Lonsdale and libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel (connected to JD Vance), Palantir develops data analysis software for large companies and government agencies. Agencies such as ICE, US Dept of Defense and the Israeli military. Its software connects and transforms all kinds of data collected by government agencies, Fortune 500 companies and large corporations. Even the Trump regime, in a March 2025 Executive Order, enlisted Palantir to collect data on all Americans.
Creepy . . .
Also in 2025, Palantir joined with Nvidia and CenterPoint Energy to develop a new software platform to speed up building new artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. The new software system, called Chain Reaction, helps firms looking to build AI data centers, (which can consume as much electricity as a small city, by the way, not to mention what it can do to local water supply), with permitting, supply chain and construction challenges. Those involved with this project said Chain Reaction will use AI tools to assist its customers.
What could possibly go wrong?
Well, people thought enough could go wrong where last year alone 25 nationally proposed data centers were halted due to local opposition, with an additional 16 being blocked or delayed. According to Data Center Watch, so far this year alone, 75 proposed centers were disrupted, nine of them in Virginia. Here in NH, the proposed data center for Nottingham was withdrawn at the end of May due to intense public outcry.
This is another issue, just like proposed ICE detention centers, that We, the People must remain steadfast and vigilant about.
Now, about that Palantir CEO Alex Karp who resides in NH . . .
The town of Lyman, (population just under 600) began as a farm and logging town in Grafton County and remains pretty rural. In 2019, Karp, who is also an avid cross-country skier, bought a 500-acre estate there. But he has other places around the country. . .
Last Dec., Karp purchased a 3,700-acre ranch, St. Benedict's Monastery in a private mountain valley for $120 million. He also owns two mansions next door to each other on Miami's exclusive San Marino Island worth nearly $75 million.
On Sept. 9, 2025, Forbes released their annual top 100 list of the richest people in America. I looked, but I didn’t make the list. However, Karp scored a 74. He received a “Forbes Philanthropy Score” of 1, on a scale of 1-5. This score measures how much of the money that goes into a company’s charitable foundation actually goes out to fund charitable causes. One is not only the loneliest number it’s also the lowest score.
Put another way, less than 1% of Karp’s personal wealth (in the billions) went to charitable causes.
Fun fact: Putting money into a charitable foundation shields it from taxes, but the IRS requires that only 5% of a private charitable foundation’s money must be disbursed.
Now, do we REALLY think Karp moved to NH for the great skiing areas, or because he can continue to “game the system,” in this case, property taxes, knowing he has a Free Stater legislature helping him and others like him, along?
Sick of it? Do something about it on Nov. 3rd.