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AOC wants to take on Apple; ‘it’s far, far too big’

June 29, 2026 | | Print Article

Blurring the lines between “ignoramus” and “demagogue,” expected price increases from Big Tech found New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) leaning heavily on her talking points.

Aversion to Free Market principles perpetually finds Democrats seeking ways to regulate, picking winners and losers where ultimately the average American can be assured to come out worse for wear. Ocasio-Cortez recently demonstrated this as her response to reports Apple could increase the cost of its products left her faulting the company for being “far, far too big” and calling for the pursuit of antitrust actions.

Speaking with Fox News Digital, the Squad member expressed, “The problem that we have is, these big companies, they think they are governments. They want to be governments. They want to have totally unchecked power, and I believe that we need to pursue antitrust.”

“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,” she went on.

As was previously reported, outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal earlier in June, “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable.”

“We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we’ve been trying to shield our customers from the increases, but the situation has become unsustainable,” he went on, lamenting the impact a shortage of random-access memory (RAM) was having on the industry. “There’s less supply at a time when consumers want devices and the memory guys are passing along huge price increases. We definitely need memory pricing and supply to return to reasonable levels for consumer products. That’s the bottom line.”

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Much of the supply has reportedly been funneled into the increased growth of artificial intelligence data centers. Meanwhile, concerted efforts to dot the landscape with data centers have been met with considerable pushback as communities have expressed concerns about the impact on local resources, energy prices and property values.

Asked about the role Congress should play in mitigating costs of the AI race and whether further legislation like the Biden era Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act should be implemented, Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News Digital, “The CHIPS Act was passed before we saw this huge development in AI, so the CHIPS Act was really passed before data centers were a thing, so it wasn’t designed to anticipate the huge amount of supply that these centers are sucking up.”

She also argued, “We are subsidizing the development of a lot of these pieces of these AI data centers.”

Whether Ocasio-Cortez deliberately missed the root problem or not, reactions to her pivoting price hikes into an excuse to try to break up Apple included Buck Sexton calling her out, “Hard to know where the ignoramus stops and the demagogue begins. AOC may have merged them into the airhead singularity.”

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