Apple plans new $1bn campus plus big US job growth

Apple has announced plans for a major expansion of its operations in Austin, including an investment of $1bn to build a new campus site Apple said it added 6,000 jobs to its US workforce in 2018 and now employs 90,000 people, with plans to add 20,000 jobs in the US by 2023 Apple's new Austin offices, located less than a mile from its existing facilities, will initially accommodate 5,000 additional employees, with the capacity to grow to 15,000 - making Apple the largest private employer in Austin.

Apple also said it plans to grow the number of employees it has in the US over the next three years, expanding to over 1,000 employees in each of Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, and adding "Hundreds" of new jobs in Pittsburgh, New York, Boulder, Boston and Portland, Oregon Apple said it plans to invest $10bn in US data centers over the next five years, including $4.5bn this year and next Apple is already the largest taxpayer in the US and earlier this year said it expects to invest over $30 billion in capital expenditures in the US over the next five years.

Apple has been under pressure from President Trump to bring iPhone manufacturing to the US "Make your products in the United States instead of China Start building new plants now," the President said in a tweet in November amidst concerns that tariffs introduced as a result of his trade war with China could push up the cost of iPhones. Source