Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields — for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments
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Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares
— the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
— for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
@cdarwin On so many levels the TECH BROS have absolutely no regard for the law - environmental law, copyright law, privacy law, tax law, corporate law etc. They answer to no jurisdiction.
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Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares
— the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
— for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
@cdarwin I hope they find they've tried that wild west shit in a country with a spine, don't let us down Finland.
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Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares
— the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
— for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
@cdarwin
Does Finland have the will and the way to ban them from the country for doing this destructive action ? Asking for an interested friend. -
Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares
— the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
— for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
@cdarwin
„… you get a bribe, you get a bribe and you get get a bribe …?“ -
Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares
— the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
— for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
@cdarwin Just like Trump, destroying things without permission.
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Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares
— the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
— for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
@cdarwin They'd want power and water as well of course, so that's more damage to come if they're not stopped.
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@cdarwin
Does Finland have the will and the way to ban them from the country for doing this destructive action ? Asking for an interested friend. -
@cdarwin I'm an American, and I still don't understand why Americans measure everything in football fields.
@kargas @cdarwin the British compare everything to the size of Wales.
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Unfortunately our entire government and the president loves the current leadership in the USA (which some might say includes Alphabet), it’s only two or three opposition parties making noise about it here. Google has promised nearby townspeople something equivalent of one free ice cream cone each as spiritual reparations (I don’t remember what it was but it was small and silly, insubstantial.)
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Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares
— the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
— for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
Fucking American Tech Oligarchs. Ugh. Spreading their cancer everywhere.
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@cdarwin They'd want power and water as well of course, so that's more damage to come if they're not stopped.
@foolishowl @cdarwin They should be prevently forced to restore all the forest they have illegally destructed. When it grows again, then the environmental assessment can resume. When it concludes, then there can be an official decision of whether they are allowed again to wipe this area to build their datacenters or not.
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Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares
— the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
— for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
@cdarwin don´t be evil.....
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Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares
— the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
— for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
@cdarwin Google is venom and venom should be killed. Where necessary with brute force. Start legal and sabotage actions now.
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@kargas @cdarwin the British compare everything to the size of Wales.
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Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares
— the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
— for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
@cdarwin that is fine, take the land back off of them, don't refund what they paid for it, plant new trees and maybe they'll follow the procedure next time. Unless there is real punishment every single company will do this knowing they can get away with it. Maybe throw in a $1B USD fine as well.
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Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares
— the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
— for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
@cdarwin uudet saksalaiset
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Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares
— the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
— for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
@cdarwin uhh, this will have zero consequences for them.
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Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares
— the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
— for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
@cdarwin If they do this in Finland, one can only imagine what they do in other places with weaker civil and democratic controls.
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