Many Americans are paying for data centers. They shouldn't have to.

Pull up your electric bill. Somewhere in that number, you are paying for a building you will never enter. Data centers are going up everywhere. They need enormous amounts of electricity. Somebody must pay to connect them and build the plants and lines they need. In state after state, that somebody is you. Not everywhere. Texas requires the largest new power users to pay more of their connection costs and cut demand when the grid is strained. The data centers came anyway. Columnists…