Alongside establishing the new Texas facility, Apple announced plans to hire approximately 20,000 employees nationwide.

Apple’s decision this week to build a massive facility in Houston for making AI servers could mark a resurrection of the region's tech past that began with Texas Instruments in the 1970s, continued with Compaq Computer Corp.

Apple's Houston server manufacturing plant would shift manufacturing from overseas. The plant was scheduled to open in 2026.

As part of a more than $500 billion, four-year investment across the U.S., Silicon Valley tech giant Apple plans to build a factory in Houston that will produce servers for its data centers to support the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) business.

Although Apple's new plant might not cement Houston as a technology city, it plays to the city's strengths in other ways, local experts say.

The announcement comes as the tech giant is slated to spend more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years and bolster "Apple Intelligence," an in-house artificial intelligence system.

Apple has unveiled its largest-ever investment commitment in the U.S., pledging more than $500 billion over the next four years and creating 20,000 new jobs nationwide.

Apple said Monday that it planned to spend $500 billion in the United States over the next four years, hire 20,000 people and open a new factory in Texas.

The U.S. government is leaning hard on tech companies to make more commitments to building their businesses in the country, and Big Tech is falling in

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