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Finnish police have now launched a criminal investigation into Google's alleged environmental destruction of 250,000 trees at the construction site of the company's planned data center in Finland (yle.fi)
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[-] KC_Royalz@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago

They should set a precedent here. $1 billion per tree

[-] Vogons@fedinsfw.app 12 points 4 days ago

Something fun about Finland is that most of their criminal Justice system has "day fines", i.e. the fine is based on losing a day's labour etc. I have no idea if that holds true for corporations but if so...

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