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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said that large technology companies want to have “totally unchecked power” and should be split up.
“The problem that we have is that these big companies, they think they are governments, they want to be governments,” she said in an interview with Fox News posted Sunday, discussing tech companies and artificial intelligence (AI). “We need to break up a lot of these companies that are far, far too big, and we also need to be instituting consumer protections for people.”
In an interview published earlier this month, Apple CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal that his company is raising its prices in an attempt to counteract the rising costs of memory and storage chips.
Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have pushed for legislation that would halt construction of every new data center until there are “strong national safeguards are in place.”
In March, they announced the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, which attempts to stop construction of AI infrastructure until lawmakers put in place measures that mandate government reviews of AI products, halt mass job displacement and restrict rises in consumer electricity prices.
“A moratorium will give us time — time to understand the risks, time to protect working families, time to defend our democracy and time to ensure that this technology works for all of us, not just the few,” Sanders said at a press conference a few months ago.
In recent months, measures seeking to stop or rein in data center construction have gained momentum at state and local levels, with American sentiment shifting negatively on the expansive buildout of AI infrastructure in their communities.
Two months ago, the Maine Legislature became the first state legislature to pass a bill stopping the development of large-scale data centers
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