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You really don't. You can power the entire world with just 0.2% of it's surface area. With just half of Montana and a quarter of Texas you can power not just America but every country on earth.
I do think it's nice how solar panels actually end up being symbiotic with the biosystem though. There was another similar story from China where solar panels and they were getting overgrown by grass, so they got sheep and goats in, and now it's a whole ecosystem that's also producing electricity. Panels also provide shade in hotter environments which allows plants to grow where it was just too hot before.