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Everything we know about Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Hawaii bunker
Billionaires are no strangers to extensive real estate portfolios, and many of them are building their own Doomsday bunkers.
Shall we count Mark Zuckerberg among them? If you ask him, no.
The Meta CEO said on a recent episode of the podcast “This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von” that he does “have an underground tunnel” at his ranch on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, though he resisted characterizing it as a bunker.
“There’s this whole meme about how people are saying I built this, like, bunker underground. It’s like more of underground storage type of situation,” Zuckerberg said. “It’s sort of a tunnel that just goes to another building.”
Zuckerberg’s real estate portfolio includes expansive holdings in Hawaii. He began snapping up land there more than a decade ago. He reportedly paid $100 million for roughly 750 acres in 2014 and $53 million for another 600 acres on Kauai’s North Shore in 2021.
In December 2023, Wired reported that Zuckerberg was building a 5,000-square-foot underground shelter, complete with its own supplies of energy and food, at his Ko’olau Ranch property. The final bill after tallying up building permits and land will be about $270 million, the magazine reported.
Wired reported the Kauai compound would feature two mansions linked by a tunnel that also connects to the shelter, which would have “living space, a mechanical room, and an escape hatch that can be accessed via a ladder,” as well as a sturdy metal door filled with concrete.
Brandi Hoffine Barr, a spokesperson for Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, declined to comment to Wired at the time regarding the size or features of the underground structure.
Local news outlet Hawaii News Now reported in December that it had obtained county planning documents showing an underground “storm shelter” measuring nearly 4,500 square feet on his property, roughly the size of an NBA basketball court.
In a December Bloomberg interview, Zuckerberg equated the bunker to “a basement” or “a little shelter.”
“There’s just a bunch of storage space and like, I don’t know, whatever you want to call it, a hurricane shelter or whatever,” he said. “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 posted a video on Instagram in January 2024 poking fun at the discourse surrounding his property, saying, “When your wife catches you in the ‘bunker’ playing video games.” The clip shows Chan walking into a keypad-operated room resembling a home movie theater where Zuckerberg is seen gaming with friends on a massive screen.
Zuckerberg has also posted on Instagram about starting cattle ranching on the property.
“Started raising cattle at Ko’olau Ranch on Kauai, and my goal is to create some of the highest quality beef in the world,” he wrote in January 2024. “The cattle are wagyu and angus, and they’ll grow up eating macadamia meal and drinking beer that we grow and produce here on the ranch.”
The following month, he said that he was “not trying to do this commercially” and was “just trying to create the highest-quality stuff we can.” He also explained the reasoning behind the cows’ diet of macadamia nuts and beer.
“As a human, what do you think is the thing that basically you just sit and eat a lot? It’s like beer and nuts, basically. Nuts, super dense. Beer induces appetite, which I think people are familiar with.”
He added that he wanted to feed the cows the “densest, most nutritious” food so they would gain weight and “be the most delicious cows.”
In addition to cattle ranching, the land would include “organic ginger and turmeric farms, a nursery dedicated to native plant restoration, and partnering with Kauai’s foremost wildlife conservation experts to protect native birds and other endangered or threatened wildlife populations,” a spokesperson for Zuckerberg and Chan told Business Insider.
“Mark and Priscilla value the time their family spends at Ko’olau Ranch and in the local community and are committed to preserving the ranch’s natural beauty,” the spokesperson said. “When they acquired the property, they rescinded an existing agreement that would have allowed for portions of the property to be divided into 80 luxury homes. Under their care, less than 1% of the overall land is developed with the vast majority dedicated to farming, ranching, conservation, open spaces, and wildlife preservation.”
The demolition of Aloha Stadium on Oahu took a big step forward Thursday with the first section of seating pulled down from the steel structure.
Half of the elevated deck-level seating on the stadium’s makai side was severed and toppled backward as part of demolition work that began in February.
The other half of the upper makai-side seating is slated to come down Tuesday, followed by similar sections on the mauka side and both end zones, though the concrete foundations for lower-level end-zone seating are being preserved for a new, smaller stadium to rise on the same site.
A private partnership, Aloha Halawa District Partners, led by local developer Stanford Carr, is replacing the 50,000-seat Aloha Stadium, which opened in 1975 and was shuttered in 2020, with a new stadium featuring up to 31,000 seats.
AHDP is using $350 million of state funding toward the cost of the new stadium, which could be $475 million or more, and will operate and maintain the facility on state land for 30 years with a land lease.
The development team also is to redevelop much of the 98-acre stadium property dominated by parking lots with a new mixed-use community that includes at least 4,100 residences, two hotels, an office tower, retail, entertainment attractions and open spaces expected to be delivered in phases over 25 years and costing close to or more than $5 billion or $6 billion.
Earlier parts of stadium demolition work led by Hawaiian Dredging Construction Co. included removing four covered multistory spiral walkways leading to the upper level from the ground, and concourse bridges.
Demolishing the stadium is projected to be done by August, according to Carr.
Building the new facility is expected to be finished in 2029.
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This Airbnb Tiny Home Sits on a Lava Field in Hawaii With Unbeatable Night Sky Views—and It’s a Guest Favorite
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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – The team behind a popular Hawaii-based home renovation show is now facing legal troubles after airing content that shouldn’t have been released, according to the state.
Hawaii’s Attorney General is now involved after HGTV’s ‘Renovation Aloha’ showed uncensored images of apparent ancient skeletal remains that were discovered at a Hilo property.
In a now-deleted clip on social media, Kamohai and Tristyn Kalama, along with the production team, discovered a cave beneath a Hilo property where they found the remains deep inside.
Video documented their shock when it was found, with the hosts saying, “There’s bones back here. I got to get out of here. Are you fricken serious? I’m serious dude. Is that a skull?”
Tristyn was seen standing further back, saying “This is terrifying. I’m at my stopping point” before leaving.
Hawaii News Now is not showing the bones, but confirmed with HGTV the episode was filmed in December 2025.
Video didn’t show them touching or moving the remains, and HGTV said authorities were notified after the discovery, the property was not developed, and the site was later blessed.
At the time, police said no crime was committed, and the state AG obtained a TRO to prevent the broadcast of the images in accordance with state law.
However this week, uncensored video of the bones was posted online by the Kalamas and HGTV, and included in the episode, triggering a quick rebuke from the community.
“We don’t kaula’i iwi. We do not lay our bones out in the sun to expose him in this manner,” former Oahu Island Burial Council Chair Kumu Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu said.
She also said the release of the images was “extremely disappointing,” saying the damage was already done.
“It is irrelevant that bones were not moved. It is irrelevant that they were not disturbed, per se, because somebody didn’t touch them — but you went into their space and that space becomes kapu space once they have transitioned over to po. And when you do that, we honor that. We don’t disturb them,” Wong-Kalu added.
The AG said they took immediate legal action to prevent the unlawful broadcast of images, pointing to a TRO issued prior to the episode’s release. They also said, “We are aware that the segment aired notwithstanding the court’s order, and we take this matter very seriously. The Department will pursue additional action as necessary.”
Court Documents revealed the Kalamas and producers of the show are now facing four counts for allegedly breaking Iwi Kupuna protection rules.
“If that were our grandparent, would we want them, after they have physically transitioned to po, would we want to share our family in this manner? I don’t think so,” Wong-Kalu added.
HGTV said in a statement, “We take the concerns raised by the community very seriously and are committed to ensuring our programming is respectful and appropriate. We apologize to anyone who found any part of the episode offensive, that was not HGTV’s intention.”
They also confirmed the original episode was removed, and re-edited without the bones included.
Through our communication with the HGTV spokesperson, Hawaii News Now offered the Kalamas a chance to respond directly, but they did not. They did however take to Instagram to address the episode, saying they followed the protocols they knew, and never intended to build there. They stressed their respect for Hawaiian culture and practices.
The investigation remains active.
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