Finnish police opened a criminal investigation Thursday into Google’s work on a planned data center in northern Finland after the company cleared hundreds of acres of forest without completing required environmental reviews. The investigation adds to mounting scrutiny of Google’s $1.5 billion investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure in Finland, where the company’s expansion plans have...

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[–] 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The only resonable way forward is to revoke any related permissions granted before they broke the rules, then it stops being just a budget item.

If you can't even wait for permission to be granted, then you can't be trusted to not break other laws and regulations on the same project.

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    That's great, but I'd rather see them put out an arrest warrant for Sundar Pichai and sentence him to replanting and tending to that entire forest until it has regrown to it's original size and ecological impact.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Do them what they did to those trees, cut them in half, alive

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