Palantir co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp is among those who announced the tech firm has moved its headquarters to Miami on Tuesday. Photo by Gian Ehrenzeller\/EPA<\/p>\n
Feb. 17 (UPI) — Artificial intelligence and software analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. has moved its headquarters from Denver to Miami, company officials announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The announcement was made on social media<\/a> and says only that Palantir has moved its headquarters to Miami without providing other information.\n<\/p>\n The tech firm has many government contracts, including with federal immigration law enforcement agencies and the military, which recently triggered protests and vandalism at Palantir’s Denver headquarters.<\/p>\n Palantir co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp recently described it as a “completely anti-woke” firm that seeks employees who share its values, according to the Denver Gazette<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n Palantir accepted a $30 million contract to create the ImmigrationOS app that enables Immigration and Customs Enforcement to support self-deportation, and the U.S. Army awarded the tech firm an up-to-$10 billion contract to provide data and software tools over the next decade.<\/p>\n Palantir also is among the corporate donors that contributed $300 million to build a ballroom on the site of the former East Wing of the White House.<\/p>\n Palantir’s co-founders established the tech firm in Palo Alto<\/a>, Calif., in 2003 and in 2020 moved its headquarters to Denver.\n<\/p>\n The move to Miami follows that of many other tech firms and positions the coastal city as a rival to California’s Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n Florida’s tax-friendly business environment has helped the state to lure many tech billionaires from California, where lawmakers are wrangling over a proposed 5% wealth tax on residents who have a net worth of $1 billion or more.<\/p>\n Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel has relocated<\/a> to Miami ahead of the tech firm’s headquarters move, and Karp in 2020 said the tech firm does not share the same values as many others in Silicon Valley’s tech community.<\/p>\n