Three dozen socialists have either won their Democratic Party primaries or run unopposed so far, with another 75 or so races yet to be called for this November’s midterm elections. Perhaps that’s what has one well-known congressional “democratic socialist” feeling feisty. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) – or AOC, as you may know her – wants to break up big companies, ban AI data centers, and share some advice with her fellow Democratic Party incumbents. And if her ideological fellows keep winning, she – and they – may just get exactly what they want.

Last week, certain Apple products jumped in price overnight – some by as much as $500. They blame the scarcity, and therefore greater expense, of acquiring memory chips now being rapidly consumed by the AI-driven demand for data center development. But AOC has other ideas:

“We need to break up a lot of these companies that are far, far too big, and we need to be instituting consumer protections for people,” the New York lawmaker told Fox News on Sunday. “Now [the price] to buy laptops, computers, iPads, electronics in general will go up, because the data centers are sucking up all of our own industrial supply, and so we’re paying in a lot of ways, we are subsidizing the development of a lot of data centers.”

“The problem that we have is that these big companies, they think they are governments, they........

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