"Ultimate" Surge Protector with Solar Cells
While I'm certain there are less drastic ways to provide surge protection, I'll focus on the solar issue - solar power is very inefficient. The best of panels struggle for 20% efficiency. Light generation is inefficient also - even LEDs have a theoretical maximum of 40% or so. That means that to use your SSD that needs 2W of power, you'll need to dump in ~26W into the light source. Given that power consumption is a major issue for data centers, this would be a non-starter.