The Austin Daily News - June 2, 2026

In this week's issue: Austin City Council just unlocked a pathway to 1,200-foot towers — taller than anything currently standing in Texas An Austin Energy employee ran a fake vendor scheme for six years, pocketed nearly $1 million, and his supervisors signed off on every single invoice Two major downtown hotels are hitting the Travis County foreclosure auction block on the same day The San Antonio-to-Austin corridor now has 3,500 acres and 5+ gigawatts of compute infrastructure under development — and that number keeps climbing Let's get into it.