To be honest, I wasn't trying to push any point, although in hind sight it appears I was. The idea that the soil below the solar panels can thrive sounds great, it looks like an absolute win-win: you get both cheap electricity and better soil.

But articles are trying to always show big numbers, and without context it is hard to know what these numbers mean. 70k hectares is not that much. A better way to play the area angle is, in my opinion, this: if we properly electrify the US, we can stop making bio-ethanol. The US is using 12 million hectares of arable land for that; that can be put to better use.