This exact same issue prevented rural communities from getting access to electric power for many decades. It wasn't until the 1930s and the New Deal that it was

This exact same issue prevented rural communities from getting access to electric power for many decades. It wasn't until the 1930s and the New Deal that it was solved, and that required the Federal government stepping in and building out power infrastructure, through programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority) and the Rural Electrification Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act). Today we take it for granted that you can go anywhere in the United States and flip a light switch to turn on a light. But without that public investment, there would be big swathes of the country still living by the light of candles and oil lamps. These problems can be solved, but the private sector will never solve them, because the profit motive isn't there for them to do so. It requires public investment.