Apple said on Monday it will spend more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years and hire 20,000 people, with President Donald Trump quickly taking credit for the announcement.
The Silicon Valley-based giant said it was its “largest-ever spend commitment,” which comes as tech companies battle for dominance in developing artificial intelligence technology.
The pivot to the US comes as Apple is increasingly under pressure from Trump’s trade battles with China, which remains the iPhone giant’s main manufacturing hub, and could be slapped with higher import tariffs by Washington.
Trump, who has pushed US companies to shift manufacturing home, claimed that his administration was to thank for the investment.
“The reason, faith in what we are doing, without which, they wouldn’t be investing ten cents. Thank you Tim Cook and Apple!!!” Trump wrote in capital letters on his Truth Social platform.
The plan is essentially an acceleration of plans announced in 2021, when the company founded by Steve Jobs said that it would invest $430 billion in the US and add 20,000 jobs over the next five years.
“Cook continues to prove that he is 10 percent politician and 90 percent CEO,” said Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities, with Cook seeking “smoother waters for Apple” amid Trump’s tariff threats.
Ives added, however, that the US plans were not a signal that Apple was significantly shifting manufacturing away from China.
The announcement came days after Trump and Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook met in the Oval Office.
Apple on Monday said its 20,000 new hires would mostly focus on research and development, silicon engineering, software development, and AI and machine learning.
It announced plans to open a new manufacturing facility in Houston, Texas, in 2026 that will assemble servers that “play a key role in powering Apple Intelligence” — part of the company’s AI products — and would create “thousands of jobs.”
An Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit is also on the cards to “help companies transition to advanced manufacturing.”
“We are bullish on the future of American innovation, and we’re proud to build on our long-standing US investments with this $500 billion commitment to our country’s future,” Apple’s CEO Cook said in a statement.
Apple’s suppliers already manufacture silicon in 24 factories across 12 states, including Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, and Utah.