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Alex Karp
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- 1Alex Karp buys 15,000 hectares of Swedish forest●15,000 hectares of Swedish forest has been sold for extraction to Palantir co-founder Alex Karp, a man who wrote his dis
15,000 hectares of Swedish forest have reportedly been sold for extraction to Alex Karp, co-founder of the data analytics firm Palantir, at a price of roughly $1,600 per hectare. Critics online are condemning the sale, pointing to Karp's Palantir work on military targeting systems and questioning large-scale foreign acquisition of Swedish natural resources.
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Palantir chief executive Alex Karp has purchased a large tract of forestland in Sweden, drawing attention in both Swedish and international media. The acquisition by the American tech executive, whose company is known for defence and data-analytics work, has prompted discussion about why a Silicon Valley figure is buying rural Swedish woodland and what his plans for the land might be.