Apple CEO Tim Cook was joined by government officials, including Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, on Wednesday to open a new manufacturing facility offering free training and educational classes for businesses in Houston, Texas.
The facility is also where Apple will manufacture Mac Mini desktop computers later this year, the company said. AI servers for Apple are also assembled at a portion of the location.
"We stood up a factory, started production, and shipped the first advanced AI servers off the line, and with Mac Mini production set to begin later this year," Cook said, adding that Apple had spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the facility.
President Donald Trump has for years pressed Apple to make its iPhone in the U.S. While the company has tried to appease the administration, it's also worried that Trump's proposed tariffs could snarl its business.
