Google Fiber coming to Austin Google and the city of Austin, Texas announced Tuesday that that the ultra-fast broadband program is expanding to the Lone Star State. "Today we're here to announce that Google Fiber is coming to Austin, Texas," Austin mayor Lee Leffingwell said at a press event. Austin is the second major U.S. city to get Fiber. The search giant has had an office in Austin since 2009 and praised the city for being a tech savvy. "It's a mecca for creativity and entrepreneurialism, with thriving artistic and tech communities, as well as the University of Texas and its new medical research hospital," Milo Medin, vice president of access services, said in a blog post. Google says it hopes to start rolling out the program in Austin by mid-2014.