Since the start of 2025: $1.75 trillion in fresh manufacturing investment in the US.
Around 160 companies across 37 states (IndustrialSage).
Nobody commits billions to a factory for “Made In America” PR.
When a company breaks ground on a plant here, they're locking up a decade-plus of capital they can't claw back.
6 big examples from the past year:
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#1 JetZero, North Carolina. $4.7 billion, 14,500 jobs by 2037
They're building the world's first all-wing passenger jet, one that burns up to half the fuel of the tube-and-wing design we've flown for 70 years.
It's the largest jobs commitment in the state's history, for an aircraft that doesn't exist yet. America designing the next airplane instead of buying it abroad.
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#2 Micron, New York. $100 billion, close to 50,000 jobs
A leading-edge memory megafab, built out over roughly 20 years, making the DRAM chips behind AI, defense, and aerospace.
It's the largest private investment in New York history, and it drags chip-making back onto US soil instead of importing it from Asia.
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#3 Texas Instruments, Texas. $40 billion, 3,000 jobs on site and thousands more across its US fabs
They make the plain analog chips inside every car, phone, and pacemaker.
The first fab is already running, turning out tens of millions of chips a day.
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#4 Hyundai Steel, Louisiana. $5.8 billion, more than 1,300 direct jobs, plus thousands more across the supply chain
An electric-arc-furnace mill making 2.7 million tons of auto steel a year, about 70% cleaner than a blast furnace.
This is a multi-decade bet on building cars in America.
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#5 Eli Lilly, Virginia, Texas, and two more sites. $27 billion, around 13,000 jobs, of which 10,000 are in construction
They're reshoring the chemistry behind our medicines, the active ingredients we outsourced overseas for decades.
It's the largest pharmaceutical manufacturing expansion in US history.
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#6 LG Energy Solution Battery Complex, Arizona, $5.5 billion, thousands of jobs
The largest standalone battery plant ever built in North America, already set to be its town's biggest employer by far.
It makes the cells that go into electric cars and grid storage, the batteries we've spent a decade buying from Asia.
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Planes, chips, batteries, steel, medicine.
This is well beyond one hot sector having a moment. It’s a monster amount of capital landing across the whole real economy at once.
I'm living my own version of this right now.
We just took delivery of four huge machines that we need for flexible shielding manufacturing at TotalShield. They came in bigger than I expected, so now I'm getting a quote to knock down a wall to fit them.
I would not be spending that money if I thought this was a moment instead of durable boom
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