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The Pentagon and Britain are bracing for the power to go out. The ultrawealthy got there first, with backup generators, escape homes, and stockpiles | Fortune
While the Pentagon plans for 90-day grid independence and Britain urges families to stockpile three days of water, Silicon Valley's billionaires quietly built their escape infrastructure years ago.
- Sam Altman's 2016 disaster prep list: guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.
- Reid Hoffman in 2017: more than half of Silicon Valley's billionaires had invested in what those circles call "apocalypse insurance" — typically a retreat somewhere in the U.S. or overseas.
- "I now have a safety blanket for this thing that scares me."
- Under the Pentagon's FORTRESS program, each major base in the contiguous U.S. would need to operate independently for at least 90 days if war cuts off the grid and supply chains.
- "What used to be a temporary inconvenience has now become part of the infrastructure of doing business here."