The Epic Failure of Vertical Farms – What Happened? [video]

(2024) - not that it matters

Summary: "It sounds absolutely awesome, and pushes all my buttons!" fails to trump the merciless arithmetic of real-world agriculture. And not bothering to do that arithmetic does not magically change anything.

That I can recall, absolutely zero "traditional" agricultural companies (which would know the arithmetic) ever expressed interest in vertical farming. Similar in my own family, which has farmers on both sides.

It is interesting that HN community discussed why it wouldn't work all the way back in 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1701724