eli5 Why is there no giant solar farm in Australia?

Question

My cursory Google says that it’s not impossible. So why?

EDIT: Answer seems to be that (politics aside) practically it’s cost prohibitive and the tech can’t transfer the energy over the distance required.

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Answer 1

There are few mine sites now with very large farms, the one I’ve seen in person hopes to run the whole operation but knowing how much power the crusher takes I’m not sure they’ll be able to do that without the gas turbines… outside of that though it looks achievable for that particular site, it isn’t a massive operation