Fun fact: Berkshire Hathaway (Buffett's company) now has a huge stake in Apple. So it's not really true anymore that he avoids IT.
He is betting that in some shape or form, they will put that cash to work or issue a nice dividend.
Cloudline is being modest... a stack of a trillion dollars in singles will take you 25% of the way to the Earth's moon.
https://www.wired.com/2011/09/stacking-one-trillion-dollars/