That's what serious solar looks like. It's a gray grid on a large field, little different than a food farm. You can't see it save from an airplane. The surrounding area is largely unused, untouched forest. Its look is not much unlike the appearance of the inside of Apple's rMBP.
And Apple could surely use something much, much smaller and get a similar result. For about $100k and a hundred square yards, they could get a 135MW nuclear reactor.
None of the complaints surprise me. I long predicted that once solar was taken seriously, the environmentalists who advocated it would turn on it with the same basic complaints.
Solar strip-mining ain't pretty, folks.