The Austin Daily News

The Austin Daily News - May 17, 2026


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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 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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    The Austin Daily NewsBy Justin Murphy