Last week, Denver said goodbye and good riddance to Palantir Technologies. After moving to downtown from Silicon Valley in 2020, and then leaving its offices in the Tabor Center for swanky digs in Cherry Creek last fall, the surveillance behemoth just picked up and moved to Miami, according to a terse message that Palantir posted on X on February 17.
While the company didn’t have much to say about its departure, many others did. Palantir has been the focus of frequent protests over its work with oppressive federal regimes, and activists cheered the move. Colorado officials pointed to tech company complaints about the state’s rigid AI laws, while The Lever noted that Florida had just weakened non-compete laws, at a time when Palantir is embroiled in several messy cases.
And then there’s the fact that the Trump administration, which has given Palantir some whopping contracts, simply doesn’t like Colorado. In their comments on the Westword Facebook post of the news, readers offered their own thoughts on Palantir’s departure…and what it really means for Colorado. Says Timothy:…