The $500 billion investment in Nevada and other states across U.S. was initially teased by President Donald Trump after a meeting with CEO Tim Cook.
By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette Journal, February, 25, 2025
Nevada stands to benefit from a $500 billion investment by Apple in its facilities and technologies across the U.S., with the tech company also planning to bolster staffing in the next few years.
Apple announced on Monday that it will invest half a trillion dollars in the next four years to expand facilities in nine states, including Nevada. The company has a data center just east of Reno that is built on a 1,700-acre campus along the Interstate 80 corridor.
Apple also plans to hire 20,000 people across the company during the same four-year period while investing in new facilities and research and development as well.
U.S. manufacturing a focal point in Apple’s latest announcement
Bolstering domestic manufacturing in the United States was a common theme in the announcement from Apple.
While the company relies on several facilities overseas, Apple also touted its “long history of investing in American innovation and advanced high-skilled manufacturing” in its announcement.
“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,” said Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a statement.
“From doubling our Advanced Manufacturing Fund, to building advanced technology in Texas, we’re thrilled to expand our support for American manufacturing.”
President Donald Trump took credit for Apple’s new investments during the Governors Working Session at the White House on Friday.
Trump confirmed that he met with Cook last week and was told that Apple was going to invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” in the United States. The meeting preceded Monday’s announcement.
Trump credited the threat of tariffs for Apple’s decision to bolster its U.S. manufacturing operations.
“They stopped two plants in Mexico, they were starting construction,” Trump said.
“They just stopped them. They’re going to build here instead because they don’t want to pay the tariffs.”
Apple did not mention the meeting with Trump in its announcement about its planned investments.
What else is Apple investing in as part of its $500 billion commitment?
Besides expanding existing facilities, Apple announced two new projects in Texas and Michigan.
One is a new 250,000-square-foot server manufacturing facility that it plans to open in Houston in 2026. The Houston facility will produce servers that will support the company’s Apple Intelligence personal intelligence system.
The second facility is the Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit.
The Detroit facility will “train the next generation of U.S. manufacturers,” according to Apple.
Apple also plans to increase its investments in U.S. research and development to support advanced fields such as silicon engineering.
In addition, Apple pledged to double its investment in its U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund, which will grow from $5 billion to $10 billion. The fund was launched in 2017 to support the development of high-skilled manufacturing jobs in the United States.
As part of the fund’s expansion, Apple added that it will commit billions of dollars to fabricator TSMC’s Fab 21 facility in Arizona for the production of advanced silicon chips.