Can San Antonio Displace Austin as Texas's Tech Hub?

This week we're exploring the economy of San Antonio in-depth. Yesterday, we covered the city's plan to find students good jobs out of high school. Check back for more stories.

Austin—home to the South by Southwest tech and music festivals, the headquarters for Dell, and an indeterminate number of hipsters--is generally considered the technology hub in Texas. But just 90 minutes south on I-35, San Antonio has been quietly establishing itself as a center for tech industries. The Air Force division charged with waging cyber-warfare is located in San Antonio, and a growing number of cyber-security and biotechnology companies have set up shop in the city as well. San Antonio also claims Rackspace Hosting, a billion-dollar hosting and cloud-computing company that has found San Antonio's low risk of natural disasters or disruptive weath perfectly suit the requirements of gigantic data centers.