Apple will invest $430 billion into its United States operations and add 20,000 full-time positions across the country in an ambitious, five-year expansion, including a new $1 billion campus in North Carolina.
The company announced plans to open the new campus in North Carolina and add 3,000 full time technology jobs there focused on software engineering, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
The jobs in North Carolina would pay an average of $187,000 a year starting in 2023, the state’s commerce department told the Charlotte Observer.
The facility will be built an undeveloped parcel of land in what’s known as Research Triangle area in the Raleigh area, which gets its name from nearby North Carolina State University, Duke University and the University of North Carolina.
Apple announced plans for a $1 billion campus in North Carolina. A similar investment was made for a new Austin campus (pictured here, in a rendering), which expected to be completed by 2022. (Rendering: Studio8 Architects and WP Visions)
An Apple spokesperson said they don’t have renderings of what the North Carolina campus will look look, but this is an example of the inside of the $1 billion Austin campus that’s being built.
Apple made a similar investment in a $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas, which is expected to open in 2022.
‘At this moment of recovery and rebuilding, Apple is doubling down on our commitment to US innovation and manufacturing with a generational investment reaching communities across all 50 states,’ said Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement.
An Apple spokesperson said there are no renderings of the campus and didn’t answer DailyMail.com’s questions about specifics.
State officials have been trying to woo Apple for more than years and faced rejection at least once, the Charlette Observer reported.
‘North Carolina’s competition for the project was primarily Ohio,’ Mark Poole, North Carolina’s finance specialist in the state’s commerce department told the Charlotte Observer. ‘But there were a number of other states considered.’
Top Apple officials – including Apple CEO Tim Cook, COO Jeff Williams have MBAs from Duke, and Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue, who is in charge of the company’s online services – have ties to the area, CNBC reported.
There was opposition to Apple’s expansion plans into Research Triangle in 2018.
Mai Thi Nguyen, a professor of city and regional planning at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill told U.S. News and World Report that Apple moving into the area would ‘be terrible’ from a housing perspective.
The Raleigh-Durham area has a metropolitan population of around 2.1 million people, and the surrounding Research Triangle, are struggling to keep up with the population growth of recent years, Nguyen told the news site
‘Right now the Triangle is experiencing a housing crunch,’ Nguyen said in 2018. ‘We have an affordability problem as it is.’
The $430 billion expansion will come also to cities with existing Apple operations.
By 2026, the tech giant said it will hire 5,000 people more people in San Diego, California, 3,000 people in Culver City, Los Angeles, and 700 employees in Boulder, Colorado.
Apple’s LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) Platinum office space in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood recently opened with 1,000 local employees, and the plan is to at least double that.
Apple will invest $430 billion into its United States operation and add 20,000 full time positions across the country by 2026.
Apple said it is outpacing its original five-year goal set in 2018 to invest $350 billion in United States assets and jobs.
Today, Apple more than 2.7 million jobs across the country through direct employment, spending with US suppliers and manufacturers and developer jobs, and is the largest taxpayer in the United States, Apple said in a statement.
It’s has paid almost $45 billion in domestic corporate income taxes over the past five years.
