February 17, 2026 11:59 AM UTC

Palantir Pulls Up Stakes in Denver and Moves HQ to Miami

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• by: Colorado Pols

As Aldo Svaldi reports for The Denver Post, the controversial data analysis company Palantir has apparently moved its headquarters from Cherry Creek to Miami, Florida:

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, founded by right-wing venture capitalist Peter Thiel, is an incredibly-creepy company that builds AI search programs after sorting through reams of data in order to help the U.S. government — most notably Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — monitor and track people down throughout the country. Palantir has been called “the most dangerous company in America” for good reason.

As former Palantir employee Juan Sebastian Pinto wrote last year for the The Guardian newspaper:

Although largely invisible, technology like Palantir’s plays a major role in world events, from wars in Iran, Gaza and Ukraine to the detainment of immigrants and dissident students in the United States. But despite its ubiquity, lawmakers, technologists and the media are failing to protect people from the threat of this particular kind of weaponized AI and its consequences, partly because they haven’t recognized it by name.

Known as intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (Istar) systems, these tools, built by several companies, allow users to track, detain and, in the context of war, kill people at scale with the help of AI. They deliver targets to operators by combining immense amounts of publicly and privately sourced data to detect patterns, and are particularly helpful in projects of mass surveillance, forced migration and urban warfare. Also known as “AI kill chains”, they pull us all into a web of invisible tracking mechanisms that we are just beginning to comprehend, yet are starting to experience viscerally in the US as Ice wields these systems near our homes, churches, parks and schools.

As Svaldi notes for the Post, Palantir was believed to employ about 1,500 people in Denver — a sizable chunk of its roughly 4,000 total employees. It is unclear how much recent protests of Palantir factored into the company’s decision to move its HQ to Miami; officials in South Florida have also been working hard to attract more tech billionaires to the area.