Apple is to open a billion-dollar campus in Austin, Texas, and will build offices in three other American cities to further its aim of creating 20,000 new jobs in the United States by 2023.
The $813bn iPhone maker, the world’s second largest public company by value, also said yesterday that it would invest $10bn in its American data centres over the next five years as demand for cloud computing grows.
Cities across the US have offered generous tax breaks to technology companies to entice them to build new offices. Last month Amazon, the world’s biggest ecommerce company, selected Long Island City, New York, and Arlington, Virginia, to “share” its second headquarters, which promises 50,000 new jobs and a $5bn investment.
