EPISODE · May 17, 2026 · 13 MIN
The Austin Daily News - May 17, 2026
from The Austin Daily News · host Justin Murphy
In this week's issue: The world's most profitable trading firm just let cameras inside its Texas AI data center — 4,032 GPUs, liquid-cooled racks, 8,000 km of fiber, and a $6 billion bet on what comes next Travis County ranked 7th in the nation for housing stock growth — 16,197 new units in one year — and Austin's median price is finally falling Austin's "low crime" numbers may be a fiction built on 311 call routing and a DA who just doesn't prosecute Nine years of Defense Innovation Unit presence in Austin, and the city is quietly becoming America's second defense tech hub after El Segundo A Kansas City wrestling fan heard about Interstellar BBQ on an Undertaker podcast, waited 90 minutes in line, and has no regrets Let's get into it.
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In this week's issue: The world's most profitable trading firm just let cameras inside its Texas AI data center — 4,032 GPUs, liquid-cooled racks, 8,000 km of fiber, and a $6 billion bet on what comes next Travis County ranked 7th in the nation for housing stock growth — 16,197 new units in one year — and Austin's median price is finally falling Austin's "low crime" numbers may be a fiction built on 311 call routing and a DA who just doesn't prosecute Nine years of Defense Innovation Unit…
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