And destroys over 14 square miles of the environment.
The available sunlight energy falling on 14 square miles is about 12,000 MW of which this contraption manages to capture 200 MW. That is an efficiency of 1.7%.
If the glass roof is 1 cm thick, that's a total of about 1 million metric tons of glass. It takes about 10,000 MW-sec of energy to make a ton of glass. So, at 200 MW, the plant will have to run for nearly 2 years before it produces enough energy to match what it took just to make the roof.
It's in the middle of the australian outback, its baked mud.
It's not like they are building it in the middle of Central Park