Apple announces U.S. expansion, forthcoming $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas

If you were hoping for Apple to bring new jobs to the United States, your wish is about to come true.
Apple announced on Thursday that the company is building a new 133 acre, $1 billion, campus in Austin, Texas. The company also stated that it will build new spaces in Seattle, San Diego, and Culver City. Furthermore, it will expand its operations in cities such as Pittsburgh, New York and Boulder, Colorado over the next three years.
The Austin campus will be located less than a mile from its current Austin base and have an initial staff of 5,000 employees working there, with the capacity to eventually accommodate 15,000. Staff at the new facility will have jobs in engineering, R&D, operations, finance, sales, and customer support with Apple investing $1 billion into the project.

Apple CEO Tim Cook offered the following comment:
“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.”
Apple currently employees 6,200 people in Austin. The city has the largest population of Apple employees aside from Cupertino.
In addition, Apple stated that it hopes to expand its American sites over the next three years. The company aims to have 1,000 employees in each of Seattle, San Diego and Culver City. It added that it will employ hundreds more people in Pittsburgh, New York, Boulder, Boston and Portland, Oregon.
On Thursday, Apple stated that it now employees 90,000 people across all 50 U.S. states and reaffirmed that it is on track to create 20,000 U.S. jobs by 2023.
The company also announced it will invest $10 billion in US data centers over the next five years, including $4.5 billion in 2018 and 2019. It is currently expanding data centers in North Carolina, Arizona and Nevada and preparing to open a new data center in Waukee, Iowa.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via The Mac Observer