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About a third of the new spending will be on data centers to house its iCloud, App Store and Apple Music services. The company has data centers in seven states and also on Wednesday broke ground on an expansion of its operations in Reno, Nevada, where local officials granted it tax breaks on a downtown warehouse.
Once a data centre is up and running they typically employ 30 to 50 workers. (And although technical i nature, only a handful require advanced abilities).
Google says they employ about 200 at each of their data centres... But they may also be including local marketing staff ...
Forecasts of permanent employment often fall far short. And they probably are jigged to include the short term jobs created by construction, and the "jobs created" by purchase of equipment.... (Depending on where the equipment is created.)
Whats good about Apples decision to repatriate is that they see the US as a better place to invest than the rest of the world right now. Whats questionable is how they will actually use the $20 billion that they haven't designated to data centres.
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Rumour is that it is supposed to go to funding production of the Titan, The self driving electric car... that Apple has had in development for several years...
This, along with the 7 or 8 other manufacturers committed to the development of autonomous cars may well mean that another revolution, like the development of computers, will drive the American economy for the next couple of decades. (There's another thread about electric cars that is hilarious to read in light of the recent news about electric autonomous cars...)
American Universities do not currently graduate enough Engineers and Scientists to meet the employment demands of the burgeoning industry. And that's even though a significant portion of those graduates are foreign students. A surprising number from shit hole countries like China, India, Iran and Nigeria...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/233 ... of-origin/So there is a demand for qualified immigrants period. Or growth in the US by the next up and coming industrial revolution may be throttled.
Countries will compete for work that the US can't fulfill. Many because they are not only allowing but recruiting immigrants.
If DACA residents are forced to leave, it will only exacerbate this situation. You can't take 600,000 young people (including some 20,000 who are currently employed as teachers) out of the economy and cause a huge hiccup.
There is nothing wrong with Trumps wanting to control immigration. The problem is that walls won't do it... In fact migrant workers used to travel back and forth across the border when it was particularly porous. They would fill an agricultural job for a season and return to Mexico. When the border was "hardened" and travel across it became more difficult - they stayed and brought their families.
The only way to control immigration properly is at the employer level. But many corporate interests don't want it because it would make employees legitimate and more expensive...