As businesses continue to expand from all over the world into Texas, the latest in this trend is Apple, which said on Monday it intends to open a new advanced manufacturing facility in the Houston area next year as part of a $500 billion contribution to "our long time investments" in American innovation.
The company is calling it the largest financial commitment it's ever made, building a facility that will build servers for its Apple Intelligence systems, which will offer artificial intelligence for use in writing and task coordination.
Apple CEO Tim Cook said, “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.”
The 250,000-square-foot facility is expected to be ready to go online sometime in 2026, forming a portion of the "backbone" for the Private Cloud Compute, meant to be Apple's network infrastructure that the company says will stress security and high performance standards.
Also in an announcement Monday, Apple said it plans to expand data center operations in North Carolina, Iowa, Oregon, Arizona, and Nevada, begin work on a Michigan school to train future manufacturers, and increase silicon engineering research and 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," the Apple CEO concluded.
Chevron has recently decided to move its headquarters from California to Houston over the next year, and Kentucky Fried Chicken announced last week that it intends to move its headquarters to the Dallas area, saying the move will increase the company's prospects for growth.