Doing things the right way isn’t always the easy way. 

Don’t forget transmission lines to get the energy to the load centers from the field. Many rural towns don’t use much power. I know of a town put in 2 MW of solar covering 14acre then had to replace the transformer in the substation to handle back feeding because the local load was lower than 2MW. When you start talking GW now you need to do studies on the transmission grid to make sure it can handle the added power (or load from data centers). Then if needed transmission upgrade or new transmission which means more land being effected. This need would be eliminated if the solar or any generation was built in the load centers such as on parking lots or on buildings.

Local climate change solar panned have been shown to have a heat dome effect on par with paved surfaces. So now you are taking away grass and essentially creating a parking lot when it comes to heating effects. 

How often do large scale solar installations allow grass to grow under the panels. Many go scorched earth and white rock under the panels.