Palantir Technologies Moves Headquarters to Miami

Palantir Technologies has moved to Miami. The data analytics giant announced the relocation in a brief post on X (formerly Twitter) early Tuesday, February 17. The move comes six years after Palantir shifted its headquarters from Silicon Valley to downtown Denver in 2020.

Palantir and its chairman, billionaire edgelord Peter Thiel, have been the subject of Denver protests over the company’s work with oppressive federal regimes. Last June, protesters had marched to Palantir’s downtown Denver headquarters when the company was still in residence there to condemn its contracts with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Israeli Defense Forces. On January 23, Denver demonstrators rallied outside Palantir’s offices to show solidarity with the ICE Out of Minnesota Day of Freedom and to protest the killing of Renee Good at the hands of ICE agents.

Now this major spoke of the military-industrial complex has packed up, picked up, and come to Florida. Here are seven things to know about the mysterious data integration company:

What Does Palantir Technologies Do?

Palantir builds large-scale software platforms that integrate and analyze diverse data streams with artificial intelligence to help large organizations make decisions. Palantir’s initial focus was data-crunching for government agencies, primarily for intelligence and defense, but now a broad spectrum of commercial and government clients employ the company to use mass data analytics to increase profits and efficiency. Its primary products are Gotham, focusing on intelligence, and Foundry, its enterprise engine.

Who Are Palantir’s Customers?

Palantir’s clients have included the U.S. Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security and ICE; the U.S. Army; and U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, the FBI, and the National Security Agency. It also has corporate clients like Walmart, Amazon, Pfizer, and UnitedHealthcare. The Israeli government is a customer, as is the United Kingdom, Ukraine, and NATO. Palantir’s stock price nearly doubled in the year that President Donald Trump returned to office, and by last fall had surged 1,800 percent since its initial public offering in 2020.

Why Is Palantir Controversial?

Palantir’s technology enhances authoritarian tools like surveillance, military targeting, and immigration enforcement, prompting concerns about oversight and threats to civil liberties. Last year, ICE contracted with Palantir for $30 million to build a platform called ImmigrationOS to streamline deporting immigrants using artificial intelligence to identify and track non-U.S. citizens. The Israeli government also used Palantir’s AI products to identify targets in the war in Gaza, and its cofounder, Alex Karp, is a controversial right-wing figure. According to a United Nations report, Palantir provided the Israeli military with artificial intelligence technology that integrates real-time battlefield data to support automated decision-making. Oh, yeah, and Palantir helped pay for Trump’s new ballroom at the White House.

Who Is Peter Thiel?

Peter Thiel, a cofounder of Palantir along with Alex Karp, was a PayPal founder and the first outside investor in Facebook. After a website, Valleywag, outed Thiel as gay in 2007, Thiel secretly bankrolled lawsuits against the site’s parent company, Gawker, eventually bankrupting the alt-media company through a lawsuit brought by Hulk Hogan. A longtime Trump supporter, Thiel has recently given talks to elite audiences about the Antichrist, as South Park brilliantly lampooned (and our sister paper, Denver Westword, subsequently documented) in a recent episode.

Why Did Palantir Move to Denver?

When Palantir moved from Silicon Valley to the Tabor Center in downtown Denver in 2020, CEO Karp told investors in a letter announcing the move that the “engineering elite of Silicon Valley may know more than most about building software, but they do not know more about how society should be organized or what justice requires. Our company was founded in Silicon Valley. But we seem to share fewer and fewer of the technology sector’s values and commitments.” In September of this year, Palantir announced it was relocating from the Tabor Center to the affluent Cherry Creek neighborhood of Denver — a city that voted overwhelmingly against Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024.

Why Did Palantir Come to Miami?

So far, Palantir isn’t saying anything beyond its brief statement on X: “We have moved our headquarters to Miami, Florida.”

Florida has attracted a surge of billionaires in recent years, with several, like Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, relocating after California began floating a five percent tax on extreme wealth.

Editor’s Note: Our sister paper, Denver Westword, first published this story in its original form.