David Parker is listed as a lobbyist for the Virginia-based\u00a0Data Center Coalition<\/a>\u00a0according to a filing with the\u00a0Texas Ethics Commission<\/a>. He has been involved in this group since January, according to official filings.<\/p>\n The organization describes itself as representing and advancing the interests of the data center community through policy advocacy, informing public officials and promoting the benefits of the industry.<\/p>\n The coalition represents major tech firms like Google and Microsoft. It should be noted their\u00a0public list<\/a>\u00a0did not include the organizations currently developing data centers in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n They claim to advance industry interests through policy advocacy and public official outreach.<\/p>\n The city reviews ethics rules regarding potential conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n According to the\u00a0Star-Telegram<\/a>,\u00a0Mayor\u00a0Mattie Parker<\/a>\u00a0and city spokespeople maintain that neither she nor her husband have received direct benefits or engaged in advocacy that would require recusal.<\/p>\n The Data Center Coalition is among 37 groups David Parker represents as a lobbyist, alongside the Dallas Regional Chamber, the Texas Association of Realtors and Uber Technologies.<\/p>\n City ethics rules forbid officials or their partners from accepting benefits that could influence official duties.<\/p>\n Data centers face increasing scrutiny for high resource consumption; mid-sized hubs use up to 300,000 gallons of water daily, while large AI facilities can use 5 million gallons. While small centers require up to 5 megawatts, large facilities operated by giants like Google or Amazon can consume\u00a020 to 100 megawatts<\/a>\u2014with a single megawatt capable of powering 200 Texas homes during peak demand.<\/p>\n Mayor Parker told the Star-Telegram that while an Austin-based member of her husband’s firm has handled state policy for the Data Center Coalition, her husband performs no direct advocacy for them.<\/p>\n Mayor Parker, also chief of staff at Cook Children\u2019s Hospital, maintains transparency by filing conflict of interest forms and regularly recusing herself from city business involving the hospital network.<\/p>\n Residents remain concerned about noise and resource use and push for a moratorium on data centers.<\/p>\n City Manager Jay Chapa prepared a report to ensure Fort Worth’s policies protect residents while meeting economic goals concerning data centers. This follow’s the council’s decision to table a\u00a050% tax break for Edged Data Centers<\/a>\u00a0on March 31.<\/p>\n The city council is scheduled to vote Aug. 11 on new data center development regulations.<\/p>\n This <a target=”_blank” href=”https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2026\/06\/18\/fort-worth-mayors-husband-listed-as-lobbyist-for-data-center-group\/”>article<\/a> first appeared on <a target=”_blank” href=”https:\/\/fortworthreport.org”>Fort Worth Report<\/a> and is republished here under a <a target=”_blank” href=”https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/”>Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<img src=”https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fortworthreport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cropped-favicon.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1″ style=”width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;”><\/p>\n <img id=”republication-tracker-tool-source” src=”https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/?republication-pixel=true&post=616996&ga4=2820184429″ style=”width:1px;height:1px;”><script> PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: “https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2026\/06\/18\/fort-worth-mayors-husband-listed-as-lobbyist-for-data-center-group\/”, urlref: window.location.href }); } } <\/script> <script id=”parsely-cfg” src=”\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/fortworthreport.org\/p.js”><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Alexsis Jones | KERA News, Fort Worth Report June 18, 2026 David Parker is listed as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,30245],"class_list":["post-341714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-kera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}