Meta chief executive paid roughly €20m for gothic-style mansion built in 1830 and its surroundings
It stretches the definition of pied-à-terre but Mark Zuckerberg now has a pad in Ireland: Strancally castle.
The Meta chief executive and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have bought the gothic-style mansion and its 178-hectare (440-acre) estate in county Waterford to use as a base during visits to Ireland.
“Mark and his family are excited to continue caring for this historic home and look forward to spending time in Ireland, where Meta maintains its international headquarters,” a spokesperson said on Thursday.
The price paid in the off-market deal is not known but the Irish Times, which first reported the sale, estimated a value between €20m (£17m) and €30m: approximately 10% of the cost of his 387ft superyacht.
Reminder that $30m is $0.0bn, to the nearest tenth of a billion dollars. Billionaires should not exist.
And he earned that by… Making everyone life worse. That was his contribution to society. He fucked us all and got a castle in reward.
Oh he’s got a megayacht too.
I’m sure this is what the IRA fought for. Independence.
“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs.”
- James Connolly
Technofeudalism needs castles for the tech-barons.
Well, to be fair they make pillaging and plundering them much more apropros. I’d feel like a dweeb plundering in the suburbs.
Honestly I’m a little bit impressed, when I imagined the castles of our technofeudalist overlords, I was thinking of some high-tech penthouses high in the skies or enormous yachts in international waters. I never imagined they might actually pick up exactly where the last feudal system left off.
This is such a stupid life.
Fuck you Mark Zuckerberg. Just because I haven’t said it yet, today.
I thought that the Irish were traditionally not too keen on foreign assholes coming over and taking their stuff?
Apparently they okay with billionaires. All the while Ireland got a housing crisis.
the classical you should accept unlimited imigrant on welfare cause one rich person bought a home in your country. fuck them all
You know they were talking about invaders, not immigrants. . ? I mean, you only have to know the tiniest bit of Irish history to see that.
not too keen on foreign assholes coming over and taking their stuff
invaders or immigrants ? didnt they burn an asylum center recently ? for wich reasons ?
That was the unionists in Northern Ireland. Think racist white Mississippians, but more inbred and with even worse accents.
Is it racist to not want ppl that need to be said to rape is bad as neighborh ?
One notes the absence of a goddamned data center on the property. Good enough for American backyards, not good enough for him.
May it be a curse to him.
i just think it’s funny a castle costs 10% of a superyacht.
shows you how much these people matter on a historical scale. he’s flexing on us but pretty fucking lame compared to billionaires in 2346 who’d have megaships travelling through the cosmos.
take a moment to laugh at this loser. have fun in your castle while you check your smartphone on the toilet, asshole. i can do that in pissant suburbia.
need 500 rooms just to do nothing lol.
They will not be “caring for” the property, nor anything else. Let’s be honest
Build a datacenter right next to it. /s
Rosie O’Donnell just can’t get away from this american largesse.
Fucking Eejit
*Feckin’
I wonder how constrained he will be by planning laws.
