As was pointed out recently in a few places, data centers are full of expensive (and easily sellable) material.
i think someone said something about the SFP dongles specifically being super valuable for their size.

They aren't yet fully protected by the robot killing machines.
So, purely hypothetically , now would be the easiest time to obtain some of those portable, easily sellable parts.

Do you remember when you had to have actual revenue planned when asking for business loan?

I do, but that's a difference in type, that's only ever been required for loans to the poors.
The "loans" involved here are just a way of avoiding tax on a systemic scale, something not available to the regular masses.
Also, in the case of the NVIDIA/GPU fuckery, to lock up the resources as a way of controlling the availability and therefore "value".