[Daishiman]

Don't forget 4. doing a good PR so that a Dem-controlled Congress doesn't push for repatriation of corporate cash reserves kept in tax havens.

[mrweasel]

$430B seems like more than you'd need for a good PR stunt.

[skrtskrt]

It's $0 if you were already going to spend it anyway

[perardi]

I suspect they really were going to spend a significant chunk of this regardless, but they packaged it into a nice press release at a potentially fraught political moment.

And…$430 billion over 5 years is a lot, but what if it influences tax or tariff rates just a bit in your direction over a 10-year period? Because that could be worth it, especially, again, if you were going to set up that new campus anyway.

[zepto]

> I suspect they really were going to spend a significant chunk of this regardless

Regardless of what?

[perardi]

Regardless of this PR they put out.

This spend was probably in the books, so let’s wrap it in a nice bow before Congressional hearings.

[zepto]

It seems inconceivable that they wouldn’t have made a PR announcement about a large investment in the US, regardless.

[sircastor]

Didn’t they do this with the former administration’s tax deal?