GuShiio.com ① Apple announced that it plans to invest US$500 billion in the United States over the next four years and create 20,000 new jobs;
② The move is aimed at responding to US President Trump’s tariff threat.
Cailian News, February 24 (Editor Xia Junxiong)On Monday (February 24) local time, Apple announced that it plans to invest US$500 billion and create 20,000 new jobs in the United States over the next four years. The move is aimed at responding to US President Trump’s tariff threat.
Affected by this news, Apple’s share price fell more than 1% in the U.S. market before the market.
Apple’s latest investment plan in the United States is the largest in its company history. The decision was announced after Trump met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at the White House last week.
“He is investing hundreds of billions of dollars,” Trump said after the meeting last week. He suggested that Apple invested in the United States because it did not want to pay tariffs.
After Trump took office, he has announced tariffs on trading partners such as China, Canada and Mexico, and plans to impose reciprocal tariffs on all countries. China is Apple’s most important manufacturing base, and most iPhones and other products are produced in China.
Specifically, Apple’s investment plans include building a new server manufacturing plant in Houston, opening a supplier academy in Michigan, and additional investments with existing suppliers.
Apple said it plans to start production in Houston with Foxconn later this year of servers that power the cloud computing portion of Apple Intelligence-a system called Private Cloud Compute. It is reported that Apple will open a 250,000-square-foot production facility in Houston next year.
Apple will also expand data center capacity in locations where existing Apple facilities are located in Arizona, Oregon, Iowa, Nevada and North Carolina.
According to Apple, the 20,000 new jobs will be mainly concentrated in the fields of research and development, silicon engineering and artificial intelligence.
Apple is opening a manufacturing academy in Detroit to help small businesses manufacture. The company has opened an academy for application developers in Detroit.
In addition, Apple will double its manufacturing funds in the United States to $10 billion.
“We are optimistic about the future of innovation in the United States and are proud to be able to build our long-term investment in the United States with this $500 billion commitment,” Cook said in a statement Monday. “We will continue to work with people and companies across the United States to write an extraordinary new chapter in the history of American innovation.”
It is worth mentioning that during Trump’s first term, Apple under Cook avoided tariff penalties by investing in the United States.
