As Trump tariffs loom, Apple pledges more than $500bn in US investment, new Texas factory

Apple has today announced that it is committed to invest more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years, including 20,000 U.S. jobs and a new factory in Houston, Texas. The $500 billion headline figure is not all new, with much of what is promised in the announcement having been pledged before. The news is clearly aimed at satiating the Trump administration, with Apple perhaps hoping it will be enough to get tariff exemptions on its products. Apple described the sum as its largest-ever spending commitment. The announcements follows comments from President Trump over the weekend, who said he had met with Apple CEO Tim Cook and “he’s investing hundreds of billions of dollars”. A new facility in Houston, Texas will manufacture servers that will help power Apple Intelligence. The servers will form part of the Private Cloud Compute infrastructure. The new factory will open in 2026, with a footprint of more than 250,000 square feet. Apple says these servers were prev ... Read full article.