"An opulent $300 million doomsday bunker complex, to protect ultrarich clients from disasters, has been unveiled by protective design specialists.

Set to open in 2026, a Virginia-based company called Strategically Armored & Fortified Environments (SAFE) says the bunkers will house 625 people, at up to $20 million per “project Aerie” unit.

Newsweek has reached out to SAFE outside of normal working hours via email for comment.

Why It Matters The vast majority of U.S. citizens do not have access to a nuclear fallout bunker or the means to build one. Relatively few people will be allowed into Government bunkers, which are intended for continuity of government operations. Billionaire wealth surged by $2 trillion in 2024—equivalent to $5.7 billion per day—as global inequality reached unprecedented levels, according to a report from Oxfam International.

What To Know The Aerie project, which is named after the resting place for birds of prey, will offer a network of luxurious residential bunkers across 50 U.S. cities, with 1,000 affiliate locations planned worldwide.

According to their website the facilities will “provide robust defense against the most severe threats, including nuclear fallout and electromagnetic pulses.”

The company has been commended for their creation of many different kinds of bunkers, including one which came complete with a Formula 1 track. "

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      It houses 625 people apparently. But I imagine there wouldn’t be that much cooking without fresh ingredients

    • start a company that does this - $1M each to secure your spot
    • hire only leftists
    • build luxury bunker with a pool and sweet ass air hockey table
    • wait for inevitable collapse of capitalist world order
    • let in employees only
    • seal the doors hoxha-turt
    • darkcalling [comrade/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Well hiding bunkers tends to be a very basic tenant of them so I assume they’d go to great lengths to conceal where exactly such bunkers are beyond being in a vague 20 mile region.

      Secondly I’d assume they be might be clever enough to think to conceal the vents. To put serious resources into hiding them a distance from the actual bunker in say fake houses or office buildings that have a concealed level in the attic or basement with an intake. All kinds of ways to hide these things that would require extensive search to locate and maybe equipment.

      One should assume they’d also conceal the entrance, also a common thing for anything but military bunkers. Could do that to fake buildings, a wall in a basement of a house that opens or even something more elaborate like an elevator that pops up from a concealed space in an area people wouldn’t look which you cover with a layer of dirt to hide the signs of until it’s first used (or just put it in a fake closet or bathroom in a building).

      All of which is to say the wealthy have good reason to feel this wouldn’t necessarily be an issue. People assume that the rich would run into these things to hide from a successful worker’s revolution when that’s not IMO what they’re for (that’s what the bunkers tech billionaires build in New Zealand are partially for being remote, on an island run by a pliant settler-colonist state). These are for mythical things like an asteroid impact, solar flares, or more realistically instigated nuclear war that the US government informs important people to shelter from an hour ahead of time. Maybe for things like a proletariat uprising in a given region ala BLM summer type situation where people are trying to Luigi CEO’s but don’t really have the ability to completely control an area for an extended period and without a vanguard party would at any rate mostly target visible banks, homes of the rich, police stations, etc.

      If they set off nuclear war (a real fear I have that they’d rather destroy most of the world rather than give up power) and nuke China and get nuked back they also won’t have to worry about that many people being around to try and kill them and those who are around will probably be so messed up with grief, pain, hunger, and other immediate needs that they won’t dedicate the resources to finding and killing people in bunkers if that information even still exists (hall of records could be destroyed entirely or at least thrown into disarray) because they’d be too busy trying to survive. At least for the tech billionaires they do tend to surmise in their planning that they/their servants/guards/remnants of the state apparatus of violence will be able to emerge eventually and re-assert order under their control of course and that’s something that obviously could go wrong for them but it would potentially buy them the ability to survive the immediate threat and even be rescued if some elements of the state still survive (as is likely in a situation where they set off nuclear war intentionally as the government has their own bunkers as well as remote military bases not worth being hit by an enemy nuke) the bourgeois state might rescue at least some of these people to manage their rebuilt society or at least that’s what they’re banking on.

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    Oh wow that’s so cool! Where is it located? I want to see this incredibly cool project, I’m so curious about the infrastructure involved, like how many vents it has and where they’re dispersed on the surface and what they’ve used to disguise them! thats-disgusting-where

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    How long would these people last before they broke all the shit and had nobody to fix it or ran out of parts? How long before the pecking order got out of hand and people started slaughtering each other?

    Living in a hole would lose its novelty pretty quickly I’m betting.

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      These fuckers couldn’t even stay in their lavish compounds for two weeks during covid. Ain’t no way they’re staying in those bunkers without losing their shit.

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      They won’t last that long because if these fucks really start a nuclear war because they can’t stop doing capitalism any survivors will find the air intakes and pour cement into each one.

      Edit: someone beat me to it, so yeah with my dying breath as my skin sloughs off from the rads, I’m dumping that concrete in.

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    Hoping that they are inspired by Vault-tec and will run inhuman experiments on the ultrarich specimens.

    • Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Yea lol it’s so obvious I was cracking up a bit. Whats funny is that among our tech elite instead of screaming “scam!” that’s probalbly attractive to them.

      I mean it even has a fucking “medbed” in the first image. No MRI looks like that. It’s a fucking sci-fi conspiracy Elysium thing. data-laughing

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      It’s really telling how now all these startup grifts just ask the computer to make something up instead of even putting in like the most basic effort to throw together some concept art and there has been absolutely zero change in the quality level because that bar was already so low. Like empty, poorly thought out compositions with details that don’t make sense, which hinge entirely on vibes is their whole thing, and image generators are amazing at producing exactly that sort of slop.

      Startups don’t have a vision, they don’t have plans, all they have are some empty vibes because the economy runs on making rich dipshits feel the right warm fuzzies when they look at your pitch so they give you free money.

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      I feel this. As murderously selfish as Amerikan bourgeoisie are, industry there doesn’t have the organisation and capacity to build this shit. Maybe in the 60s, but not now.

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    “The Aerie project, which is named after the resting place for birds of prey”

    What a fitting fucking name…

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      But you have to be a communist to know how to solve them

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    For back in our forefathers’ time, the devils ruled this land

    They made cruel wars and laws to rule the folks on every hand

    They spoiled the land and water, and they poisoned half the sky

    They cared for nothing but their power, though man and nature die

    […]

    They hid themselves below the ground and left the people here

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    But still the people stayed alive, and well they promised then

    That all the devils hid in Hell would never rule again

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