Apple is to invest $1bn (£800m) in building a new campus in North Austin, Texas and will spend another $10bn for new data centres as part of a five-year investment plan aimed at creating 20,000 jobs in the US.

The Cupertino-based company said it would also to set up new sites in Seattle, San Diego and Culver City, California and expand operations in Pittsburgh, New York and Boulder, in Colorado, over the next three years.

Apple, which gets over half its revenue from outside the US, has faced increasing political pressure to increase investments at home since 2016, when then presidential candidate Donald Trump targeted the company for using Asian factories for the bulk of its manufacturing.