Apple to Build New Campus in Austin
December 13 2018 - 4:29AM
Dow Jones News
By WSJ Staff
Apple Inc. said on Thursday it plans to invest $1 billion to
build a new campus in Austin, Texas, near its existing
facilities.
The tech giant, based in Cupertino, Calif., said it would open
new offices in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, Calif.--adding
more than 1,000 employees in each place. It also plans to add
hundreds of jobs in cities including Pittsburgh, New York, Boulder,
Colo., Boston and Portland, Ore. over the next three years.
In Austin, where the iPhone maker already employs more than
6,000 people, the new 133-acre campus will have the capacity to
grow to accommodate 15,000 employees, with new jobs covering
engineering, research and development, operations, finance, sales
and customer support.
Apple said it added 6,000 jobs in the U.S. this year, bringing
its American workforce to 90,000, and is on track to create 20,000
jobs in the country by 2023.
The company plans to invest $10 billion in U.S. data centers
over the next five years, including $4.5 billion this year and
next.
Apple in January announced plans for a new campus to house
technical support staff, but since then had said little about the
search effort--in contrast with Amazon's well-publicized effort to
find a second headquarters city. The e-commerce giant last month
picked New York City and northern Virginia for its HQ2
locations.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
December 13, 2018 04:14 ET (09:14 GMT)
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