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Apple announces plan to build $1 billion campus in Texas [phys.org]

Apple will build a $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, and establish smaller new locations in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, California, the company said Thursday.

The tech giant based in Cupertino, California, says the new campus in Austin will start with 5,000 employees working in engineering, research and development, operations, finance, sales and customer support. It will be less than a mile from existing Apple facilities.

The other new locations will have more than 1,000 employees each.

Austin already is home to more than 6,000 Apple employees, representing the largest population of the company's workers outside of Apple's Cupertino headquarters, where most of its roughly 37,000 California employees work.

"Apple has been a vital part of the Austin community for a quarter century, and we are thrilled that they are deepening their investment in our people and the city [phys.org] we love," said Austin Mayor Steve Adler in a statement.

The company also said it plans to expand in Pittsburgh, New York and Colorado over the next three years.

The Austin announcement comes nearly a year after Apple disclosed it would canvas the U.S. for another location.

Cities wooed Apple with various incentives, though Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company wasn't trying to stage a competition like Amazon, which encouraged civic leaders to come up with enticing packages if they wanted their cities to become the home of its second headquarters.

Amazon announced last month that after a 14-month search it had selected Long Island City, Queens, and Arlington, Virginia , as the joint winners. Each site will get 25,000 jobs.

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Apple to build $1B Austin campus, add thousands of jobs in US expansion [cnet.com]

Apple will build a new Austin campus for $1 billion and expand its operations across the US, the company said Thursday.

The iPhone maker will also set up new offices in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, Los Angeles County, as well as expanding operations in Pittsburgh, New York and Boulder, Colorado, according to the press release [apple.com].

The Austin campus will be located less than a mile away from Apple's existing facilities in the Texas city, which already employ 6,200 people (its largest group of employees outside Cupertino). The new area will initially hold 5,000 employees, with capacity to grow to 15,000 over time.

It'll include 50 acres of preserved open space and its workspaces will be entirely powered by renewable energy (like all Apple facilities).

Apple's choice of locations for new offices -- each of which will employ over 1,000 people -- hints at various aspects of its business. Seattle is where Microsoft and Amazon are headquartered, San Diego is where chipmaker Qualcomm is based and Culver City could be linked to its original programming plans [cnet.com].

Apple, which became in the first US public company to be worth $1 trillion [cnet.com] in August, didn't offer a timeline for its new facilities, and didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Its Apple Park campus [cnet.com] was opened to employees in April 2017, six years after company co-founder Steve Jobs pitched the project [cnet.com] months before he died [cnet.com].

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It'll also add hundreds of new jobs in Pittsburgh, New York, Boulder, Boston and Portland, Oregon, having brought on 6,000 new American workers in 2018. The company noted that it's on track to create 20,000 US jobs by 2023, as promised in January. [cnet.com]

Apple currently employs 90,000 people in all 50 states, but came under political pressure in September when President Donald Trump said it should move production [cnet.com] to the US.

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"Apple is proud to bring new investment, jobs and opportunity to cities across the United States and to significantly deepen our quarter-century partnership with the city and people of Austin," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, said in the release.

The announcement comes exactly a month after Amazon picked New York's Queens borough and Arlington, Virginia, as the two locations [cnet.com] for its HQ2 project -- each of which is expected to land 25,000 well-paid jobs.

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