Sorry, but sellouts should just take their money and shut up. Of course the land is ruined. Any dam fool could see that one coming.
Jasper County? Oh man, here I was looking at that as another possible retirement location. Wonder how much of the county that solar farm affects?
Just another poor utilization of resources. Perhaps there may be high-rises built in urban locations to replace the farmland destroyed, but the cost of production of the food produced will vastly exceed what can be grown on fertile soil under individual ownership using the technology currently available.
The land is not “ruined”, it is merely being made unavailable for other purposes. You want CHEAP, highly reliable supply of electrical energy? Go nuclear, using the most recent designs of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, now available from a number of different sources, and already being operated in a number of locations outside the US.