Controversial data-analysis firm Palantir Technologies, the state’s largest public company with a market value of $312.2 billion, announced Tuesday morning on social media that it will relocate its headquarters from Denver to Miami.

“We have moved our headquarters to Miami, Florida” is all the straightforward post on X said.

No details were provided on how many Denver employees might be relocated to Florida or what functions will remain in Denver, if any.

The company has faced multiple protests during its time in Denver, initially for its support of the Israeli military and more recently for its work with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement by using artificial intelligence to identify targets for deportation.

Members of the Denver City Council have publicly chastised the company for its work with ICE and advocacy groups have tried to push the council to divest from any services or contracts with Palantir.

Palantir faced a large protest on Jan. 31 at its new Cherry Creek office and another one this weekend, with protestors chanting “Palantir out of Denver” and “No AI for ICE.”

Palantir relocated from Palo Alto, California, to Denver in 2020, handling executive, engineering and operational tasks. It initially set up shop in the SugarCube Building before moving to the Tabor Center at 1200 17th St. In September, the company announced it would take 11,000 square feet at the Financial House at 205 Detroit St. in Cherry Creek.

When CEO Alex Karp announced the move to Denver in a 2020 letter, he said the company was leaving Silicon Valley due to cultural and ideological differences. He cited a more pragmatic environment in Denver at the time.

DENVER — As high fire danger becomes a becomes a way of life during Colorado’s driest winter in decades, more homeowners are investing in backup power generators as extreme fire weather conditions threaten to disrupt power across the state.

Xcel Energy started using preemptive power shutoffs as a fire mitigation tool in March 2024. Since then, the company has conducted three more shutoffs between December 2025 and January 2026, affecting customers along the Front Range and northern Colorado. While neither Xcel nor CORE said they plan to shut off power in communities during this week’s weather event, homeowners are accepting the reality of future outages.

Tom Teynor, the owner of Bell Plumbing and Heating, said his company is seeing a dramatic surge in homeowners requesting generator installations because of the planned Xcel outages.

“We certainly support the safety for wildfires. I think consumers are starting to realize that backup generation or power storage is no longer a luxury, that it’s often a requirement,” said Teynor.

He said before planned outages became more common, his company received about a dozen requests per year for generators. Now, he said, they’re fielding about seven requests per week.

“For a lot of people, it’s a safety issue, making sure that sump pump is working, not losing food, making sure medical equipment is operational,” said Teynor.

The increased demand comes as Colorado faces an extremely dry winter with frequent red flag warnings and critical fire weather conditions. Aurora Fire Rescue (AFR) said it’s preparing for heightened risks by staffing extra wildland fire engines on Monday and Tuesday.

“To me, it feels like we are seeing more red flag warnings and more critical fire weather than what I’ve seen in my career here along the Front Range in the fire service,” said Eric Hurst, Public Information Officer for AFR.

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Xcel Energy said it plans to activate enhanced safety settings on powerlines across eastern Colorado over the next few days. The safety settings make lines more sensitive and automatically shut off power if something, like a tree branch, comes into contact with the line.

Hurst said windy conditions can lead to unplanned localized power outages. He said energy company crews will respond to calls about power outages, while fire crews may respond to emergencies that result from power outages.

“People who are reliant on home oxygen machines that are plugged into the wall if they’re not prepared with backup oxygen. A lot of times that can cause problems where people are needing assistance with that. Sometimes fire alarm activations or stalled elevators in buildings. Those are the types of things that we often see when the power is out,” said Hurst.

Teynor said many of his customers often feel frustrated about spending money on back up power supplies as they feel compelled to find their own solutions to power outages.

“More and more people are working from home, and suddenly it becomes less optional to have power when you’re in that situation,” Teynor said.

To prepare for planned or unplanned outages this week, he recommends homeowners test sump pumps and backup batteries. He said people should make sure to fully charge phones, laptops, and medical devices. You can also freeze water bottles to help keep freezers cold longer and fill bathtubs with water to use for sanitation needs or flushing toilets during power outages.

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Colorado Department of Corrections officials forced inmates to work prison jobs through coercion that ultimately amounted to involuntary servitude, a Denver judge ruled Friday.

The state’s prisons unconstitutionally coerced labor by levying severe punishments — including solitary confinement — against prisoners who refused to work, Denver District Court Judge Sarah Wallace found in the 61-page ruling.

“By creating a framework where failure to work triggers a sequence of restrictions that culminate in a more restrictive ‘custody level’ and physical isolation, CDOC has established a system of compulsion that overrides the voluntariness of the (prisoners’) labor,” Wallace wrote.

The ruling comes out of a 2022 lawsuit in which state prisoners claimed the Department of Corrections’ approach to prison labor amounted to involuntary servitude or slavery, which Colorado voters outlawed in 2018 via Amendment A.

The lawsuit, which went to trial in October, was brought by Towards Justice, a nonprofit law firm headed by David Seligman, a candidate in the 2026 race for Colorado attorney general.

Prisoners in Colorado are expected to work prison jobs, which include food preparation, janitorial services and other positions within their facilities. They are paid well below minimum wage for the work.  They can choose not to work, but doing so is a disciplinary infraction for which prisoners are punished, according to court filings.

State attorneys argued during the October trial that prisoners’ labor was voluntary, and that punishments for failing to work, while “uncomfortable,” did not rise to the level of coercion legally required to constitute involuntary servitude.