so wtf ever happened to “not scarring the land” or whatever? You can’t strip-mine, but you can put turn a countryside into a freaking eyesore junkyard of metal and plastic?
Like a lot of things with land use, zoning, and politics.
Follow the money.....
The term you’re looking for is “solar strip-mining”.
And I don’t have a problem with it if appropriately situated, and kudos to Apple for getting at least part of their operation off the grid. Solar can be effective if done right at the correct scale (yeah, it can be screwed up pretty easily too).