Senatorin Elizabeth Warren: Warum wir KI besteuern müssen
https://time.com/article/2026/05/27/why-we-need-to-tax-ai/
Senatorin Elizabeth Warren: Warum wir KI besteuern müssen
https://time.com/article/2026/05/27/why-we-need-to-tax-ai/
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Tax what profit? Every AI company is deep in the red.
Well, if it is working my job why not?
needs safe guards too
Let’s start with making sure the data centers aren’t given tax breaks and are solely responsible for their own power and water.
conversation around taxing AI is probably less about “punishing technology” and more about what happens when automation replaces large amounts of human labour faster than new jobs are created
Sure if they’re replacing people with ai why am I still being taxed and not the ai
Tax what? AI is already a money hole, they’re taxing the rest of Americans. There has to be proper regulation on AI and on the data centers that are destroying the environment.
Don’t forget the billionaires and Donald Trump who have been using AI to fire people.
Data centers are a lot more expensive than hiring people.
Taxes are such a distraction. The Government can’t even force all the corporations to pay living wages directly to their employees.
Fix that and then I’ll maybe believe that you’ve figured out how to efficiently distribute the tax dollars you collect, because currently we pay a ton in taxes already and just fund so many of the wrong things (MIC, primarilly)
And it should be paying us all. The executives too
Bill Gates saveral years ago proposed that companies should pay HUBI for every non human worker they have (once AI was „smart“ enough to replace human labor)
If The People are paying for your water and power, and you aren’t making money, then The People should be getting a cut when you do.
I don’t really understand this. Are we going to tax automatic elevator systems because they replaced the manual operator?
May not give them tax breaks is a starter. And also tax the CEOs behind them more effectively. Or better yet, not so many data centers.
„…start by making corporations pay their fair share. Right now, companies pay payroll taxes for their workers but get tax breaks for investing in technology—effectively, a tax penalty for hiring human beings and a tax break for buying equipment. In an AI world, that means our tax code is incentivizing corporations to fire people and replace them with AI. That’s wrong… can start with taxing AI data centers. The majority of AI data centers are controlled or operated by trillion-dollar companies. By imposing a reasonable excise tax on the energy used by data centers, families could recoup some of the gains of AI, while America continues to stay competitive in the AI race. A well-designed tax would focus on the companies that can afford it and scale with AI’s impact: the bigger the data center, the more they pay.“
From the article.
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Can we start with them just paying the full electricity price?
And then some on top of that to lower the electricity prices, or eliminate them entirely, for consumers if this is so revolutionary?
We need to do a lot more than just tax it
Tax it? Kill it with fire, more like
Let me guess: head tax instead of progressive income tax?
BINGO!
We need to tax corporations making billions of dollars more.
We can add a new tax to corporations making billions to fund social security.
The idea that social security money needs to come only from employees needs to die. If you have a corporation with the CEO as it’s only employee making billions, you need to be taxed for the common good of the people.
she misspelled ban
How about making them
1. Pay for their water usage at a premium
2. Pay for electricity grid upgrades
3. Require 80% of energy usage come from renewable energy sources
Sound bite bullshit. No thanks.
More taxes of that sort just means more struggle for the regular people Warren always performs a show for, and is not the fucking answer. I’m not interested in feeding a system that pours trillions into military buildups and ignores universal healthcare, ubi, and won’t tax the millionaire class with an effective rate that woupd secure social security retirement benefits and all the rest.
Regulation and enforcement of even the environmental laws that already exist is what’s needed, they just have no direction or courage to push anything difficult so they will use taxes as the easy option.
Everyone wants a new tax to pay. If you don’t realize those taxes will roll right into the product or service price your education failed you. This doesn’t need discussed beyond that reality.
Great, more trickle down. Smh.
YES! We should be (and sometimes are, I guess) taxing corporations for shipping jobs overseas. It’s the exact same thing with ai.
There’s already a sales tax on it.
I would assume someone smarter than me has thought of this but I do wonder what happens when a large amount of the workforce is replaced by AI or something else that is non-human
These will be sold or controlled by companies who already have super advantageous tax structures and have immense power in lobbying tax legislation
Wont tax revenue plummet?
Gov’ts around the globe, „if it moves – tax it“.
I think this is the ultimate greatness between Warren and Sanders at the fundamental level while also being great pillars of wanting to do better than what we have.
Taxation, regulation, and representation
The sad part is Elisabeth and Bernie Sanders will probably lay in their graves before they see their hard stances and speeches have impact. And some petty rich billionaire will put a data center on their gravesights.
😢
Someone should become Aragorn and recruit all the homeless for an army of sorts.
Plenty of things get taxed. It’s what the taxes get wasted on that’s objectionable.
Treating it as a strongly regulated utility is also an option.
I don’t understand why water, electric, and chip companies aren’t price hiking on data centers instead of consumers.
makes zero sense. are you going to tax factory machines?
Fucking stop with the taxes. Everything is already taxed to death and the money is wasted!
Using AI needs to be more expensive. The true cost is being hidden and subsidized and it should be taxed to bring the cost of using it closer to the true cost of running it.
Hold up…let her cook
Start taxing power consumption of data centers.
They can have all the AI they want when the prioritize power efficiency.