When it is an incredibly expensive factory, requiring an incredible level of technical expertise to operate, and air freight from anywhere on earth to your biggest client is scarcely a rounding error in the price of the finished products - then NO, it makes no sense to put the factory next to the client.
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On one hand, I misspoke. The US is not their biggest market, just a strategically _very_ important foothold in the continent, making and breaking financial decisions that impact every other country.
On the other, do you happen to have sources for all that? Specifically,
- That the cost of this plant is going to be in any way excessive/odd compared to, say, TSMC's plant basically next door
- That the level of technical expertise required is inordinately hard to train in the US
- That the air freight from (also, why air freight specifically?) prices to and from there are a constant, easily disregardable thing and will continue to be so
Would help a lot to ground the conversation in reality a little bit more.