Data Center Coalition

September 21, 2026

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Vegas Won't Sign the $6.4M ERCOT Deal After Lt. Gov. Patrick's Call

July 30, 2026

The Data Center Coalition, representing Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, opposed the rules and asked the Public Utility Commission to open formal rulemaking instead, with policy EVP Aaron Tinjum arguing ERCOT's equipment-design assumptions need deeper analysis.

July 29, 2026

The Data Center Coalition opposed ERCOT's rules on authority grounds, with EVP Aaron Tinjum arguing the technical assumptions may not match real equipment.

June 24, 2026

The Data Center Coalition's Dan Diorio argued against mandating today's technology, while AWS and Google cited non-potable and closed-loop deployments.

June 21, 2026

Mayor Mattie Parker and her husband David Parker, a 20-year registered Texas lobbyist, denied any conflict after activist EJ Carrion flagged his Texas Ethics Commission registration for the Virginia-based Data Center Coalition.

June 20, 2026

David Parker, husband of Mayor Mattie Parker, is registered with the Texas Ethics Commission as a lobbyist for the Virginia-based Data Center Coalition; the mayor states her husband performs no direct advocacy on Fort Worth matters and she maintains conflict-of-interest filings.

June 13, 2026

The Data Center Coalition signaled it'll engage rulemaking.

June 2, 2026

The Texas Blockchain Council and Texas Industrial Energy Consumers have filed comments challenging ERCOT's statutory authority, and Data Center Coalition VP Aaron Tinjum is pushing for hardware-realistic parameters.

May 30, 2026

Data Center Coalition's Dan Diorio committed plainly: "Data centers are fully committed to paying our whole cost."

May 26, 2026

The Congressional Research Service found in May little evidence data centers are moving rates nationwide yet, a short-window finding the Data Center Coalition is leaning into.

May 21, 2026

Industry's counter, a PwC study commissioned by the Data Center Coalition, claims the sector contributed $4.5 billion to state and local governments in 2024.

April 9, 2026

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

April 8, 2026

The Data Center Coalition's Dan Diorio warned that curtailing the exemption would "give a lot of different companies pause."

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.