Facts About Bill Gates Home: Bill Gates is the American business tycoon, author, investor and philanthropist is the richest man in the world with a net worth of $ 84 billion. Since he is the richest person in the world, his abode is also one of the costliest across the globe.
Bill Gates’ abode Xanadu 2.0 was built in six years and its making cost around $63.2 million located in Medina, Washington. Here are some unknown facts about Bill Gates’ residence Xanadu.
Crazy Facts About Bill Gates Home – Xanadu 2.0
- Microsoft holds an auction each year for a tour of Xanadu 2.0. Each year, the highest bidder tours Bill Gates’ house. Also, the products and services are donated and bid on, the proceedings of which go to the charitable trust of the company. Once, a Microsoft employee toured Xanadu 2.0 for $35000.
- Bill Gates pays $1 million as taxes for Xanadu 2.0 each year.
- The sand on the shore of the lake is imported from St. Lucia, Carribean each year in huge quantity.
- Bill Gates’ favourite tree is taken care of electronically. Gates’ is fond of a forty-year-old maple tree. It is monitored electronically and in case it becomes dry, water is pumped to it automatically.
- There is an enormous library in Gates’ Xanadu, that has the manuscript of Leonardo Da Vinci for which Bill Gates paid $30.8 million. The quote written on the ceiling of the library reads – “He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it” from “The Greta Gatsby”.
- There are ten kitchens and 24 bathrooms in Xanadu 2.0
- The swimming pool in Xanadu 2.0 has its own underwater music system.
- The artwork on the walls can be changed with one touch of a button. Computer screens worth $80000 are situated around the house on which there are numerous paintings and photographs that can be chosen merely with one click of a button for displaying on walls.
Home Theatre
- The trees around the house are planted to reduce the heat loss and regulate the temperature naturally in the house.
- There is a high-tech sensor system that allows the guests to enter their preferred lighting and temperature through a pin code. With this, the person will find the preferred lighting and temperature in the house as he moves. Also, there is a music system behind the wallpaper that will follow you from room to room.
- Gates’ purchased the land for $2 million in 1988 and as of today, the abode is worth $123 million.
The most expensive house in the world is Antilia in Mumbai owned by Indian business tycoon, Mukesh Ambani.
