Property, Plant And Equipment, Additions, Area Of Property Purchased

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Stock Repurchase Program, Authorized Amount, Approved Increase

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of long-lived, physical assets that are used in the normal conduct of business to produce goods and services and not intended for resale; includes cash outflows to pay for construction of self-constructed assets.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 13
-Subparagraph (c)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=126954810&loc=d3e3213-108585

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Amount of stock repurchase plan authorized.

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Amount remaining of a stock repurchase plan authorized.

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Detail information of subsequent event by type. User is expected to use existing line items from elsewhere in the taxonomy as the primary line items for this disclosure, which is further associated with dimension and member elements pertaining to a subsequent event.

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Subsequent Events (Details)	1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended
Subsequent Events (Details)	Apr. 30, 2023 USD ($) ft²	Mar. 31, 2023 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2022 USD ($)	May 08, 2023 USD ($)	Jul. 31, 2022 USD ($)
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Purchase of property and equipment		$ 30,300,000	$ 122,600,000
Repurchase Program
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Stock repurchase program, authorized amount					$ 5,250,000,000
Stock repurchase program, unused balance		$ 529,600,000
Subsequent Event \| Plano, Texas
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Square feet of property purchased \| ft²	43,400
Purchase of property and equipment	$ 19,300,000
Subsequent Event \| Repurchase Program
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Increase in authorized stock repurchase amount	1,000,000,000
Stock repurchase program, authorized amount	$ 6,250,000,000
Stock repurchase program, unused balance				$ 1,530,000,000