Plots of empty desert could soon be worth more than the most fertile farmland in human history.
@CJHandmer ran through the back-of-the-envelope math.
10 acres of solar is enough for 1 MW of H100s. And the FLOPS done by those H100s is roughly equivalent to 1000 human brains.
If we build models that match human performance per FLOP, we could produce 100 humans' worth of cognition per acre of solar.
And that's just the floor. Today's chips are far less energy-efficient than the brain, so the actual number could be bigger still by >50x.
The implied land value is insane. The clear incentive would be to use up almost all the world's land for solar.
9:16 AM · Jun 25, 2026 · 15.6K Views
