Big Tech and the US Digital-Military-Industrial Complex by Andrea Coveri, Claudio Cozza, Dario Guarascio published by Intereconomics (4/2025)
“Large digital platforms – Meta (Facebook), Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google) and Apple, the so-called Big Tech companies, which are compared to Chinese counterparts like Alibaba, JD or Tencent – dominate the world economy. Their market capitalisation has exceeded the GDP of large economies such as Germany or Japan.1 They control a significant share of global research and development (R&D)2 and patents related to frontier technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI) (Fanti et al., 2022; Hötte et al., 2023). These figures reflect an unprecedented concentration of techno-economic power, with major implications for income distribution, access to knowledge and innovation, fragmentation and precarisation of labour, as well as on rising geopolitical tensions (Armoogum et al., 2022; Vasudevan, 2022)…”
