Finnish police said on Thursday they had launched a criminal investigation into suspected breaches of environmental law at the construction site of a planned Google data centre in northern Finland.
They need to be declined use of the site and forced to pay for revegetation.
Honestly go after the contractors that did the clearing too. They should know that this kind of thing requires permits and google clearly didnt show them any proof of those.
What if they knew, and did it anyways as fast as they could because the fine is nothing but the cost of doing business to them. Slap on the wrist, the trees are already dead, building it anyways shut up or Trump/the US will make your life terrible if you complain.
I think that’s the point. For Google billions is the cost of doing business. For the contractors it could be criminal negligence which means personal liability.
But they’ll be fine because Google has the money to cushion them for their professional sacrifice
Will Google have a reason to do that though? Won’t they just leave the contractors to fend for themselves?
Fuck AI and fuck Google
Surely to God foreigners (especially foreign corporations) can’t just come and do that shit in a country. There must have been some signoff by the local authorities, otherwise isn’t that an invasion?
