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Whatever the outcome of this, it'll make no difference to Google.
They speeded up the process by ignoring any Laws that they otherwise would have had to wait for to permit the land clearance, and probably pay off the correct people to justify why it was a necessary decision. This way, they pay whatever fine Finland gives them, and they still build their massive data centre which will generate trillions for them harvesting.
Finland fucked.
Finland is extremely protective of their forests. This is basically the one thing they could do to anger the country enough to prevent their ability to built the datacenter at all, anywhere in the country.
Glad to hear it. Might be harder for Google to pay off the relevant people so. 145 data centres is a lot of pull for the politicians to suggest they are needed.
The paper and forestry industry is THE industry of Finland, except for perhaps mineral mining.
Forestry management is taken extremely seriously, and legislated according to the science. Google can obviously absorb the costs here, but doing this will have left a ton of officials PISSED THE FUCK OFF.
I don't know Finnish politicians, but I'm pretty sure MOST politicians around the world will bend a little, then a lot, when that sort of money comes knocking.
It's what Google are counting on. I hope they get hit with a lot. Not just fines, but told to replant the whole 330 hectares.
Then officials can come to their decision. If the officials then decide that they could clear 250,000 trees, then so be it, and that will have pissed off Google, and imo would be the best way to let them know that they can't do what they did.
I admit I'm biased against politicians and companies like Google, so I don't have much faith in everything going swimmingly.
Then it should be an open target 🤷🏻
So an artillery training field then?
They could always use more practice for a potential Russian invasion. Can never be too prepared.
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