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No matter how you shape it, the amount of solar energy an area receives is the same.
If you put your farm in a skyscraper, you just create a shadow over what could be productive land. You are not getting free solar energy, you are taking away it from nearby land
And if you use artificial lighting, you add an additional expensive energy input

The Netherlands have more or less perfected the high-intensity farming technology
>Flat "horizontal" farm covered in glass to provide optimal temperature and humidity even out of season