Data Center Coalition

April 9, 2026

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Nine Months to Shape the Rules Texas Is About to Write

Dan Diorio of the Data Center Coalition said Texas could surpass Virginia as the world's largest data center market by 2030.

March 9, 2026

The Data Center Coalition pushed back, with VP of state policy Dan Diorio calling HARC's projections "speculative" and noting datacenters use less water per unit of economic output than golf courses or food manufacturing.

March 3, 2026

The Data Center Coalition contested HARC's projections as speculative, arguing 83% of datacenters use equal or less water than large commercial office buildings.

February 16, 2026

Jeff Billo, ERCOT's vice president of interconnection and grid analysis, described the June deadline for new admission criteria as "somewhere between a target and a mandate," while the Data Center Coalition's Cameron Poursoltan warned that projects already meeting all existing requirements have waited years for approval.