Happy Tuesday.
The build this week: foreign money, American factories. The two largest bets on US industrial capacity came from Toyota and TSMC.
Underneath: Lockheed's $3.45 billion move into undersea warfare, TeraWulf leasing 400 megawatts to Anthropic, SK Hynix's $28 billion New York listing, and a June jobs report that came in at half of what forecasters expected.
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The Lead
The story of American reindustrialization usually stars an American company. This week the two largest bets on US factories came from a Japanese automaker and a Taiwanese chipmaker.
Toyota committed $3.6 billion to a second assembly line in San Antonio, and over the next four years it will move production of its Tacoma pickup out of Baja California, Mexico. Then Taiwan cleared TSMC to put another $20 billion into Arizona, a new wafer fab plus an advanced-packaging plant, the finishing step that fuses logic and memory into the accelerators sold for AI. Neither is a small check. Toyota's brings its San Antonio total to $8.3 billion, and TSMC's lifts its approved US investment to $44 billion, more than triple what it first pledged for Arizona back in 2020.
Both companies are choosing to build where it costs more. Toyota is trading Mexican wages for Texas wages and covering more than ninety percent of the new line itself, with the state's $303 million the smaller part of a $3.6 billion bill. TSMC has said for years that a chip made in Arizona runs well above the cost of the same chip made in Taiwan. What that premium buys is access: to a market behind a rising tariff wall, and to customers who increasingly want their supply chains on this continent.
The local effects are real. New payrolls and supplier orders will reprice labor and land across Texas and Arizona, and that weight will be felt for years. The ownership side is worth keeping in view too. The plants will belong to Toyota City and Hsinchu, and the returns they generate will still be posted home. What's being built is real capacity on American soil, with much of the upside still flowing overseas.
Defense & Space
AeroVironment drew the first task order, an $80.5 million award for Titan counter-drone systems to guard Air Force Global Strike Command bases, converting the $500 million counter-drone ceiling we flagged last week into revenue within days rather than quarters.
Curtiss-Wright committed $80 million to expand its Cheswick, Pennsylvania plant that makes canned motor pumps and control-rod-drive mechanisms for naval reactors, adding roughly 150 jobs with Department of War funding aimed at the submarine and small-reactor propulsion bottleneck.
Semiconductors & Electronics
TSMC won Taiwan's approval for another $20 billion in Arizona, its sixth cleared US expansion, funding a wafer fab and an advanced-packaging plant and lifting its approved American investment to $44 billion, which starts to localize the packaging step that has kept AI-accelerator assembly tethered to Taiwan.
Manufacturing & Automation
Toyota committed $3.6 billion to a second San Antonio assembly line, moving Tacoma pickup production out of Baja California, Mexico over four years and adding 2,000 jobs, a bet that tariff math now favors a US truck line even at Texas wages.
Supply Chain & Freight
Rooker won approvals for a 650,000-square-foot speculative cross-dock on 87.7 acres beside Jacksonville's airport, a $20 million minimum build with no tenant signed, a wager that Sunbelt distribution demand still clears spec risk in a soft leasing market.
Dealbook
Lockheed Martin agreed to buy Ultra Maritime for $3.45 billion, folding sonar, sonobuoys and torpedo defense into its Rotary and Mission Systems unit, a prime buying into the sensing layer of anti-submarine warfare as the Navy funds its undersea plus-up.
TeraWulf signed a 20-year, roughly 401-megawatt lease with Anthropic worth about $19 billion in contracted revenue at its Kentucky campus, and sold its 50.1% stake in a separate data-center venture for about $530 million, repricing a former bitcoin miner's power and land as investment-grade AI infrastructure.
SK Hynix launched a roughly $28 billion Nasdaq listing of US shares, the offering it filed as we noted June 30 and now the second-largest share sale on record after SpaceX, drawing about $7 billion of early interest to fund HBM memory fabs and ASML lithography tools.
Back Thursday.
