It’s been five years since the budding tech giant Palantir Technologies uprooted the company’s headquarters from Silicon Valley to Denver, hoping to plant itself in the emerging tech hub and escape protests that had erupted both within the company and outside its doors.

Immigrant-rights advocacy groups had organized protests outside the company’s Palo Alto and New York offices, as well as at the home of its CEO, Alexander Karp, who criticized the California coast’s “monoculture.” A University of California, Berkeley conference on privacy law dropped Palantir as a sponsor. More than 200 employees sent a letter to Karp expressing their concern over the company’s contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which ostensibly focused on the agency’s investigative arm but which act

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