Kailey Hunt

Twenty-eight people died at the Christian girls' camp during July 2025's deadly flooding in the Hill Country.

Data center development has picked up in the Austin area, and residents have voiced concerns about water and energy resources related to the construction. But experts say they can use those concerns to get the companies to build more sustainably.

Across Texas, Democrats and Republicans alike are calling for limits on data centers’ water and power use, but efforts to regulate the rapidly growing industry have gained little traction amid divisions among state leaders.

KUT News requested tours of several data centers in Hays, Travis and Williamson counties. Most companies either declined or did not respond. But the Texas Advanced Computing Center let us peek behind the curtain.

The lawsuit, filed by former Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody and Assistant County Attorney Jason Nassour, is tied to the in-custody death of Javier Ambler in 2019 during the filming of the reality television show Live PD.

Last July, some Sandy Creek residents had never met their neighbors. Now, they're coming together to rebuild.

The citizen-initiated ordinance was submitted to the city last month, along with more than 1,400 signatures from residents.

Nine people died when floodwaters tore through the neighborhood of Sandy Creek in northwest Travis County on July 5, 2025.

One state lawmaker said information about how much water data centers are using is "woefully lacking."

Camp Mystic faces five wrongful death lawsuits. It wants to resolve them out of court, through arbitration.