The City of Austin and Austin Energy will receive $15 million from the federal government to install 284 EV charging ports at public locations across the city.

After a statewide blackout in 2021 and a massive Austin outage in 2023, cold weather means energy anxiety for many in Central Texas.

Austin Energy received a $15 million federal grant to build more electric vehicle charging stations across Austin.

A grant awarded to Austin Energy will place hundreds of new electric vehicle charging stations around the community through the 2020s, local and federal leaders announced in Janua

AUSTIN, Texas — Several power lines fell early Monday morning in southeast Austin, impacting drivers and residents in the area. Roughly 2,300 Austin Energy customers were temporarily without power, but electricity has since been restored. Still, drivers are asked to avoid both directions of East Stassney Lane until further notice.

KXAN is monitoring Austin’s water and power utilities amid ongoing winter weather conditions. We have reached out to Austin Energy, Austin Water and 311 for updates on services and will update this report as information becomes available.

The Austin area is expected to get 1-2 inches of a wintry mix of snow and sleet on Monday and Tuesday. Austin ISD and other local school districts have announced closures for Tuesday.

After the freeze in February 2021, many Texans began looking at alternate power sources to make sure they had power during weather events.

City and state agencies are preparing for the upcoming cold snap in Austin, with Austin Energy fully staffed and ready to respond to power outages, TxDOT laying brine on roads to prevent ice

Stargate — the joint venture between OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle — is starting its AI infrastructure plans with 10 data centers in Texas.

AUSTIN, Texas — It is what President Donald Trump calls the " largest AI infrastructure project " in history, which will create more than 100,000 jobs. The leaders of Softbank, Open AI and Oracle are coming together to announce the formation of Stargate.

President-elect Donald Trump announced last week that Dubai developer DAMAC Properties will invest at least $20 billion “over a very short period of time” in data centers across the U.S., including in Texas.