Apple Inc. plans to build a $1 billion office in Austin, Texas, not far from where it already has a major corporate hub, and expand campuses around the U.S., it said early Thursday morning.
The new 133-acre Austin facility will be able to handle about 5,000 employees when it opens, and could grow to house up to 15,000, Apple said. Apple — which said it already employs about 6,200 people in Central Texas, the most outside its headquarters in Cupertino — expects the move to make it the largest…