Tim Cook says Apple invested "hundreds of millions of dollars" in Houston training center

Apple opened a Houston manufacturing training center this week, and CEO Tim Cook touted the scale of the company’s investment in the site, saying it had been built quickly. The roughly 20,000-square-foot facility offers free classes to small and mid-sized businesses on smart manufacturing techniques such as machine-learning-driven quality control. Apple said the Houston operations have already shipped their first AI servers and will begin producing the Mac mini there later this year, the first time that product has been manufactured in the U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick attended the opening, underscoring the facility’s role in Apple’s previously announced $600 billion U.S. investment commitment.