Inside Apple’s R&D center in Austin, Texas — image credit: Apple
With a new Texas factory and increased manufacturing support across the States, Apple has announced it will create 20,000 new American jobs as part of a four-year, $500 billion investment plan to include Apple Intelligence server farms.
Following Apple CEO Tim Cook‘s February 2025 meeting at the White House, Apple has confirmed President Trump’s announcement of massive US investment.
“We are bullish on the future of American innovation, and we’re proud to build on our long-standing U.S. investments with this $500 billion commitment to our country’s future,” Cook said in a statement. “From doubling our Advanced Manufacturing Fund, to building advanced technology in Texas, we’re thrilled to expand our support for American manufacturing.”
“And we’ll keep working with people and companies across this country to help write an extraordinary new chapter in the history of American innovation,” he continued.
Apple’s investment plan includes:
- Opening a new advanced manufacturing facility in Houston
- Double its US Advanced Manufacturing Fund
- Create a manufacturing academy in Michigan
- Increase research and development across the US
The Houston facility will specifically be for the production of servers that are to be used to support Apple Intelligence. Apple says that these servers, which provide its Private Cloud Compute system, were previously manufactured outside the US.
As part of supporting Apple Intelligence, the company says that it also intends to continue “expanding data center capacity in North Carolina, Iowa, Oregon, Arizona, and Nevada.”
Apple hasn’t specified how it will increase research and development, but has said that it will be to support what it describes as “cutting-edge fields like silicon engineering.”
As part of this, Apple says it plans to recruit around 20,000 people for this R&D effort, as well as software development and AI.
It has, though, specified that its doubled Advanced Manufacturing Fund investment means it will be committing $10 billion to promoting skills development. That includes a multi-billion dollar commitment to TSMC’s Fab 21 plant in Arizona.
