Apple has announced the construction of a state-of-the-art factory in Houston, Texas to expand its production capacity. Supporting President Donald Trump's statement that big American companies should invest in their own country first, Apple has said that it will create such an infrastructure. The company plans to produce especially AI servers in the said factory.

Apple is investing more than 6 billion US dollars for this project. Under this, the goal is to create more than 20,000 research and development (R&D) jobs in the next four years and expand the company's technical capabilities.

It is said that the factory will be spread over an area of ​​250,000 square feet and it will manufacture servers with Apple's high-end M5 chip. It is the company's goal to help the company's AI-related service operations. The company claims that these servers will develop and expand AI-based features such as Apple Intelligence, which Apple has been promoting very vigorously.

This infrastructure is expected to be operational by 2026 . Apple has said that it will start production from the end of this year. The company's chief executive, Tim Cook, enthused about the plan, telling Reuters, "We are very optimistic about the future of American innovation and are excited to strengthen our long-standing investment in American technology with this $500 billion commitment."

This announcement has come at a time when the Trump administration is putting direct/indirect pressure on large technology companies to invest more within the country and increase production capacity . Apple's commitment also includes plans to raise $10 billion to the Advanced Productivity Fund. This fund will be invested in various projects  . These include plans to produce high-grade silicon at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) Arizona production plant. According to Gil Luria, an analyst of the

technology industry, Apple's announcement is a political signal that large companies are becoming more liberal towards the Trump administration. However, he mentioned that it will strengthen the domestic production capacity and create new jobs in different states.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has also welcomed Apple's decision. Trump has been strongly criticizing the move by American companies to open large factories abroad and foreign governments benefit from it. He asked big technology companies to invest in their own country.

Apple's iPhone City in Zhengzhou, China, General Motors' production plant in China, Ford's production plant in China, Mexico, and Germany, Boeing's assembly plant in China, Intel's chip production center in Ireland, Israel, and China, along with Trump's close industrialist Elon Musk, Trump believes that more than 1 million vehicles produced by Gigafactories in China, Germany, and the Netherlands should be produced in America as much as possible. have done .