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A lot of people think that these companies want to become too big to fail but I suspect something else is going on as well.
Step 1. Make/pioneer new tech or buy it.
Step 2. Get investors onboard with it so that you can get a lot of seed money.
Step 3. Invest in the infrastructure to support widespread use of the technology.
Step 4. Develope the technology even though it has known flaws.
Step 5. Let those known flaws stir the pot and cause uncertainty in the market.
Step 6. If the technology fails and the bubble pops, get government bailout.
Step 7. Use money from bailout to buy up the infrastructure and components at a ridiculously rock bottom rate using these companies own money.
Step 8. Use a combination of bailout money and insurance to make the investors whole (or as whole as their contract stipulates).
Now at step 9 you are left with a bunch of commodities that tech companies need (data centers, supply lines for components, better power infrastructure, a knowlegable tech work force etc). And you don't have to pay astronomical prices because the bottom fell out of the market.