On energy binges, data centers, and old projects on new national monuments

Plus: Deadline tomorrow to weigh in on Chaco Canyon Cultural Protection Zone

Four Corners coal power plant, the flagship of the Big Buildup of coal plants on the Colorado Plateau during the 1960s and 1970s. Plans also included building an even bigger coal plant on the Kaiparowits Plateau in the middle of what later would become Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.

“We are, in short, on an energy binge, which, like all bi…