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> Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft had 526 billion dollars between the four of them in cash reserves.

Presumably they would cooperate and do something about it if they saw the current situation as too risky?

They are doing something -- forming a lobby group to get the government to pay for it. That's much cheaper than actually paying for it themselves.

It also gets the actual foundry a pretty sharp knife to cut through the pesky red tape/law when they do start looking for prospective sites.