[darkr]

From my understanding they paid CapGemini €24M for this project in order to net €10M in taxes.

[cinntaile]

That's 10M extra per year. You pay property taxes each year.

[ShadowBanThis01]

If it's anything like the big consulting firms' rip-offs in the USA, it might well be every year.

Look at the disgraceful fleecing of our national parks by Booz Allen: https://www.wsj.com/articles/national-park-fees-booz-allen-6...

[pyrale]

The $10m comes from about 10% of France's territory that was used as an experiment.

[arp242]

The article says "The public finance authority DGFiP said the AI programme would now be rolled out nationwide, potentially leading to €40m in new taxes on private pools in 2023".

So total revenue is not that significantly higher than €10m.

[prepend]

So it will likely need $300M in fees to CapGemini to expand to the other 90%.

And the model will need to be rebuilt in 2 years.

[TMWNN]

Most of that will be fixed costs. It won't cost nearly so much the next time.

[Traubenfuchs]

...when will the next 20.000 swimming pools be done?

[_Microft]

Another commenter pointed out that having a pool influences the property value and thereby tax, so they should be able to collect the tax yearly, not just once.