Apple Pledges To Invest Half a Trillion Dollars in the US Over the Next Four Years
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In what is undoubtedly a response to the Trump Administration’s efforts to draw more manufacturing and other business back into the US, Apple made a staggering commitment today to drop more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years.
The news came in a direct announcement from Apple, noting that it would “spend and invest” that amount domestically across “a wide range of initiatives” from research and engineering to training for “students and workers across the country.”
“This new pledge builds on Apple’s long history of investing in American innovation and advanced high-skilled manufacturing,” Apple notes in its press release, adding that the monies will go into “initiatives that focus on artificial intelligence, silicon engineering, and skills development.”
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. 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.”
Tim Cook
Apple also isn’t leaving out manufacturing. Although we’re unlikely to ever see iPhone manufacturing come to US shores, the company has announced that it will open a new “advanced manufacturing facility” in Houston, Texas, where it will produce the specialized Private Cloud Compute (PCC) high-end servers needed to support Apple Intelligence.
Building these on US soil will likely help to improve the security of these PCC servers, which require a “hardened supply chain” to ensure that no components have been tampered with before the servers go into production. Apple’s PCC infrastructure is built with a zero-knowledge design that does everything possible to guarantee that no personal data will ever be stored for longer then necessary to fulfill an Apple Intelligence request.
Previously manufactured outside the U.S., the servers that will soon be assembled in Houston play a key role in powering Apple Intelligence, and are the foundation of Private Cloud Compute, which combines powerful AI processing with the most advanced security architecture ever deployed at scale for AI cloud computing. The servers bring together years of R&D by Apple engineers, and deliver the industry-leading security and performance of Apple silicon to the data center.
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The 250,000-square-foot Houston facility is slated to open in 2026, creating thousands of jobs.
In addition to building PCC servers, Apple is also doubling its US Advanced Manufacturing Fund from $5 billion to $10 billion including “a multibillion-dollar commitment” to produce advanced silicon in TSMC’s Fab 21 facility in Arizona, where Apple has already begun fabricating A16 and S9 chips. The Advanced Manufacturing Fund already supports projects in Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Utah.
Apple is also opening the Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit, Michigan, where Apple engineers and university professors and teachers will assist businesses with implementing AI and smart manufacturing techniques. The new academy will offer free in-person and online courses, and focus on areas like project management and manufacturing process optimization.
Apple plans to spread these substantial investments across all 50 states. This includes new and expanded data centers for Apple Intelligence in states such as North Carolina, Iowa, Oregon, Arizona, and Nevada, new corporate facilities across the US, and new Apple TV+ productions in 20 states.
In its press release, Apple also emphasizes that it’s one of the largest US taxpayers, “having paid more than $75 billion in U.S. taxes over the past five years, including $19 billion in 2024 alone.”
