There’s no better explanation of the business end of Palantir than this:

Millions of pounds have been saved by replacing a Palantir IT system which helps to find homes for Ukrainian refugees with one built by its own experts, a government department has said.

Yes it’s overpriced. And if you dig into the reports, it’s unusable as well.

[Replacement] easier to navigate than the previous system.

Ok, so you pay too much for something you can’t use. That’s Palantir in 2022, and still the same in 2026. What a waste.

Industry
Database and operating software package – 48600000

Value of contract
£4,500,000

Procurement reference
CPD4124104

Published date
14 October 2022

On top of their expensive “god’s eye” being incompetence instead, the company has had a reputation for deep corruption and stoking fear, trying to trap its customers and extract data to politically boost extreme-right campaigns. The U.S. Army contract catastrophe, and 2021 reporting of fatalities, alone should have killed Palantir chances of any government contract again. And yet the UK is only slowly waking up to the overt Nazis they put in their bed.