"The building went from 29K wafers per month to 250MW of solar capacity in about half a year."

Let me try your interesting technique for quoting statistics:

"I used to weigh 150 pounds, then my pants size increased by 3 inches."

Wouldn't you say my statistics sentence is absolutely useless? Going from 29K to 250MW tells us nothing about how much production increased.

German SolarWorld AG recently did the same thing in Hillsboro, Oregon, when it bought a fabrication plant from the Japanese Komatsu Group in early 2007. The plant had never gone into production for the Japanese group.

Sorry if this sounds stupid, but does this article suggest that the plant will eventually be producing a GW of panels per month?
Considering the large coal plants in Australia produce around 1.5 GW, does this mean that with this solar plant and others, it would be, theoritically at least, to replace coal with solar in a few short years?

Theres Improvement & then theres just Change.Theres all sorts of "BUZZ" Words that are sold, like infinite number of transmission gears, all unique, yet all doing same fundumental task. What could replace them? NO Clue. Future Is NOT Easy to Predict, especially if its entire new technology, Mind just comes up Blankie.

Here MATH Says it all. 8,000 hr=year X 60 Minutes= 500,000 gal year fuel at 1 gal minute, Huge consumption, yet cost of Plant Mickey Mouse is 100 years of that level Fuel Useage in One BiIG $Dump. 
NO Wonder AMD Is Losing Monies. They'll Need PAY Toilets Next.

Noticed Msr. Magee Posted to it.examiner on Friday, Mr. Ruiz, I Missed Meeting two years ago in Dc Convention Ctr & often Wished I had Meet Hector. Probably did more for quality computing than any single name at Present. 
It is funny coming from WANG, DEC Nassua & likes, strictly large scale business, to come up with such Radical New Desktop Ideas. For $200 Million AMD Should have bought another HECToR.
STeWie Drashek

1) Convert one of AMD's two Dresden fabs to solar production

2) Build a replacement chip fab in New York

3) Profit! 

Hey, it's no crazier than anything the "analysts" have come up with.

"Construction and building related portions of this took about 70 million Euros."
Is €1647 per m² not expensive, just to convert a factory?