Software Company Palantir Flees Colorado for Florida
In December 2025, the Colorado Chamber of Commerce’s Colorado Scorecard for 2025 received bad news when 45% of the business leaders who participated said they planned “to invest out of state.”
Will blue states ever learn?
And yes, Colorado is a blue state.
AI software company Palantir announced it moved its headquarters to Miami, FL, after spending six years in Denver, CO.
We have moved our headquarters to Miami, Florida.
— Palantir (@PalantirTech) February 17, 2026
Palantir produces software for defense agencies and large companies.
Palantir, founded by Peter Thiel in 2003, relocated from California to Colorado in 2020. CEO Alex Karp criticized Silicon Valley “for its ‘woke mob’ and anti-patriotism” while praising Denver as “sane” and “pleasant.”
I guess not anymore:
In left-leaning states like California and Colorado, “the regulatory and tax environment is simply becoming too much of a hurdle,” Andrew Rocco, a stock strategist at Zacks Investment Research, told MarketWatch. Last fall, 65% of senior executives surveyed by the Colorado Business Roundtable claimed state policy was having a negative impact on business.
Colorado isn’t as bad as California.
The state ranked #11 in CNBC’s 2025 rankings of top states for business, an improvement from #16 in 2024.
However, CNBC gave Colorado a D+ for cost of doing business, an F in cost of living, and a C for the economy.
Yikes.
In December 2025, the Colorado Chamber of Commerce’s Colorado Scorecard for 2025 received bad news when 45% of the business leaders who participated said they planned “to invest out of state.”
That F Colorado earned from CNBC for the cost of living? Yeah, the business leaders cannot bring in talent. From Vail Daily:
Poverty and homelessness in Colorado also increased among both adults and children in 2024 for the second and third years in a row, respectively. Furman said the state’s rising cost of living has become impossible to overlook as employers struggle to compete for talent and grow their businesses.
Roughly 50% of Colorado business leaders surveyed by the chamber blame housing attainability as a significant barrier to attracting and retaining workforce talent, which only hinders the state’s competitiveness.
Annual homeowners’ insurance, another significant expense for Coloradans, saw rates increase by an average of $1,912 in 2025 — a 47% rise from the previous year — according to 2024 data from Insurify. Colorado’s yearly cost of $5,984 makes it the 4th most expensive state in the nation.
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The continued persecution of citizens for their religious beliefs, even in the face of smack-downs by SCOTUS is a screaming red flag to GET OUT.
Compulsory speech in schools is just the latest example. Such a beautiful state, what a shame.
The governor of Colorado is a man
who is married to a man, and raising two children. Who could question the leadership of such a normal man of the people?
As opposed to straight folks. Like… Peitzer. Or, Newsom.
Progressives are like locusts destroying wherever they go and constantly migrating to new fertile lands where they rinse and repeat.
Palantir, in particular, should be forced to STAY in deep blue America.
So should all those living in a blue state.
listen to the moneytalk
Nor will there be any meaningful political course correction. Colorado has universal voting by mail, so the chances of the Communists losing power are zero. Communists control the state legislature, the governorship, and all statewide offices.
The 1984 movie “Red Dawn” involved a Soviet invasion of the fictitious small Colorado town Calumet. In the movie the mayor openly collaborated with the occupying Communist forces even to the point of betraying is own son. Today the entire state government would eagerly collaborate with such a Communist invasion (no need to fire a single shot!) and help wage war on the rest of the US.
Remind me again: which side won the Cold War?
The Democrats?
but dont forget
in our warm collectivist system
palantiers tax money, just like yours and mine,,will still find its way to those blue utopias of doom
Colorado, one of the most beautiful states, as is California
Oregon, Washington
They destroy the beauty of these most magnificent states
Florida is actually an expensive state to live in
Yes- I was 50/50 on there and TN. HO insurance, the level of mean/crazy, and other prices made me choose TN.
I think for people looking to flee, FL has better economic opportunity. Sadly one of fellow conservative refugees is having to return to CA because he can’t get work in his chosen profession (academics). They are very depressed about it. Personally I would take a pay cut and have my kid finish school here before moving again.
The homeowners insurance is way, way more expensive in FL and FL costs the most of any State, though Colorado isn’t cheap either coming in at 10th most expensive. Car insurance is about $700 more per year in FL than Colorado. Total tax burden of FL is top five lowest where Colorado is #26. I’d guess the regulatory regime on businesses has much higher costs in Colorado than Florida. Then there’s crime stats, Colorado has 476 violent crimes per 100K people while Florida has 267 per 100K people so far safer in Florida.
Florida certainly has a concerning history of political fluidity that Tennessee was never known for.
25 years ago, they actually had an assets tax — every year, you got taxed a percentage of your total wealth — not income, not even liquid wealth — in other words, exactly the dreaded “wealth tax” that we all screamed at when Kammy proposed it. I guess when you are overrun with retirees, normal income taxes don’t feed the beast enough. It was one of the two major reasons for us choosing Arizona despite the remains of my family all having moved there. That tax is gone now, but Florida seems to change hands easily enough to make this a concern for the future,
Florida now has a 1,500,000 + GoP voter registration advantage. The main issue in FL, similar to TX, is rinos in the State Legislature who are far more ‘moderate’ in casting legislative votes than the districts they represent. Lots of chamber of commerce, establishment, corporatist sorts who put legislative desires of big business ahead of ordinary voters.
and California was once Red.
Go figure!
If this keeps up Florida will tip over!
Paging Hank Johnson!
Irony: I’m listening to Atlas Shrugged again on Audio Book and Colorado is where all the businesses were fleeing to. I think the book would have been more apt to have chosen Wyoming for the mineral wealth, but I’ll forgive an author for not seeing the future 110% accurately.
In that version, instead of an incredibly efficient motor mysteriously left behind in an abandoned lab, the people searching for John Galt discover an incredibly efficient space heater,
The Viet Nam war was a crusade against Communism in SE Asia. They should have worried more about the Communists in Hollywood and academia.
“Tend the garden you can reach”
They DID worry about them.
The Commies outflanked the investigators and got them cancelled,
They should have worried about the commies in K-12 and all government unions.,
I am concerned about many firms leaving, but bringing their employees. Those employees likely bring the same (voting) attitudes that created the mess in those states in the first place. Austin & Houston TX is a fine example of a reasonable metro overrun with libtards [yes, immigrants are also a factor, but the focus here is limited]. Many other examples are readily identified.
What are the long term effects? We can hope for the best – that they will see the light of better ways – but many are immune to reason.
//oldschool sends//
This is one of the reasons I avoided TX.
If Red states want to “liberal-proof” themselves, they need to go hard core on Abortion laws and other sacred cows of the left.
Pro life legislation is like garlic to the AWFUL vampires.
America already has a wealth tax
but its on the middle class
Reminder to Palantir employees moving to Florida: You are not a political missionary. You are a political refugee. Conduct yourself accordingly.