Apple claims "Apple is the best".

Sure, its reasonable to doubt Apple's claim here. Or even think that its accurate now but may change in the future. I'd probably phrase it as a possibility rather than treat it as fait accompli.

After Snowden, I don't believe anything an American corporation says.

Apple: "we are the paladin of privacy"

Also Apple: "we know when you are naked and take decisions for you upon that"

What a clown company.

Spot on. The difference in thinking with the US is enormous.

I wonder if all they want from the future is fat people on mobility scooters like the beginning of wall-e.

Sure, AI may be the future for a certain market, but datacenters aside we will always need clean land, air and water, food for our bodies and homes to live in.

And there is almost zero value generated locally.

The tax will address that.

Noise pollution is huge and water usage is through the roof which could worsen the effect of droughts where water is already scarce. Not to mention the imbalances they generate on power distribution.

> So unfortunately the "free rider" problem needs to be addressed somehow.

Free rider? I am already paying close to 30% of my income for the state to distribute to ALL.

> A child might cost its parents somewhere beyond $200k, the parents only get a tiny fraction of this from the state.

Yet another reason for others not to chip in your bad ROI decisions then

What about taxing the rich instead of putting yet another burden on the young.

If there are no young people to produce resources and care, your money is just numbers.

again, the problem is demographic. people like you are not able to see beyond the first order effects. if you finance the social system from the rich you will fundamentally not fix the issue. you can't eat euros.