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Billion-dollar regulatory fines fail to dent Big Tech
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Billion-dollar regulatory fines fail to dent Big TechApple accumulated $851m across four separate rulingFor the world’s biggest tech firms, regulatory penalties are no longer a consequential financial event.
Fines are indeed rising, but they remain relatively small compared to the cash Big Tech throws off each month.
Since Proton began tracking penalties in 2022, cumulative fines against Big Tech have now passed $21bn.
Read more Big Tech steps up energy hiring as grid creaks under AI pressureFines barely registerThe reason fines don’t have quite the impact they should for these tech titans, is simply cash flow.
On those numbers, Apple could have paid all of its 2025 fines in just over three days.