The investment will go toward expanding the company's equipment and facilities and toward building a new factory in Texas to produce servers compatible with Apple Intelligence.
Tech giant Apple announced on Monday a commitment to invest more than US$500 billion (477.712 billion euros) in the United States over the next four years, which the multinational has highlighted as "its largest spending commitment to date," adding that it plans to hire 20,000 workers for R&D work.
"Apple just announced a record investment of US$500 billion in the United States of America. The reason, the faith in what we are doing, without which, they would not be investing even ten cents. THANK YOU TIM COOK AND APPLE!!!" commented the President of the United States, Donald Trump, on Truth Social.
The planned investment will go toward expanding the company's equipment and facilities in Michigan, Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Iowa, Oregon, North Carolina and Washington, as well as building a new factory in Texas to produce servers compatible with Apple Intelligence, and doubling its U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund.
This spending commitment includes Apple’s work with thousands of suppliers in all 50 states, direct employment, Apple Intelligence infrastructure and data centers, corporate facilities, and Apple TV+ productions in 20 states.
The company has also expressed its intention to hire around 20,000 people over the next four years, the vast majority of whom will focus on R&D, silicon engineering, software development and AI and machine learning.
"We're optimistic about the future of American innovation," said Apple CEO Tim Cook, announcing a record investment by the company to expand its support for domestic manufacturing. "We'll continue to work with people and companies across the country to help write an extraordinary new chapter in the story of American innovation."
In this regard, the multinational has recalled that it remains one of the largest taxpayers in the US, having paid more than US$ 75 billion (71.657 billion euros) in taxes in the last five years, including US$ 19 billion (18.153 billion euros) in 2024 alone, in addition to currently supporting more than 2.9 million jobs across the country through direct employment, work with US-based suppliers and manufacturers, and the jobs of iOS app developers.
NEW FACTORY IN TEXAS
Among the announced investments, Apple has announced the construction of a new server manufacturing plant in Houston (Texas) with a surface area of 23,225 square meters, whose opening is scheduled for 2026 and which will allow the creation of thousands of jobs in the country.
Apple said these servers, which were previously manufactured outside the United States but will soon be assembled in Houston, play a key role in the operation of Apple Intelligence and are the foundation of Private Cloud Compute, which combines powerful AI processing with the most advanced security architecture.
As the company continues to bring Apple Intelligence to customers across the United States, it also plans to continue expanding data center capacity in North Carolina, Iowa, Oregon, Arizona and Nevada.
Apple has also announced that it will double its Advanced Manufacturing Fund in the US, which was created in 2017 to support innovation and highly skilled manufacturing jobs in the country.
The fund's endowment will thus increase from $5 billion to $10 billion (9.554 billion euros). The expansion of the fund includes a commitment by Apple to produce advanced silicon at TSMC's Fab 21 plant in Arizona.
Apple is the largest customer of the state-of-the-art facility, which employs more than 2,000 workers to manufacture the chips in the country, mass production of which began last month.
To date, Apple’s U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund has supported projects in 13 states, including Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Texas and Indiana, that have helped create local businesses, train workers and create a wide range of innovative manufacturing processes and materials for Apple products.
