Google was apparently so eager to build its new data center infrastructure in Finland that it began bulldozing large swaths of forest before the required environmental review...
It is not about the forest it is about Google spitting on Finnish law, acting as it is above the law. That needs to have consequences, preferably criminal charges, rather than just fines. Otherwise they are above the
law.
Finland has a significant forestry industry; I’m not sure that 300 hectares is all that much in the grander scheme.
But I hope they hold Google accountable.
It is not about the forest it is about Google spitting on Finnish law, acting as it is above the law. That needs to have consequences, preferably criminal charges, rather than just fines. Otherwise they are above the law.
I would have pulled the plug then exiled all things Google from the country until they paid a fine of double value to the land they desecrated.