This is TERRIBLE! And to make sure it DOESNT happen AGAIN we’re going to Write a SEMI STERN LETTER while they PROCEED with Construction!
-The Finnish Government?
Very likely, considering which political parties are in charge.
I call this government coalition “persrukous” (ass prayer):
pers: persut, short for “Perussuomalaiset” (Finns Party, far right)
ru: Suomen ruotsalainen kansanpuolue (Swedish People’s Party of Finland, centrist liberal, will do anything the coalition wants as long as everyone is forced to learn the language of the 5% linguistic minority, it’s always been like this no matter who the governing parties are)
ko: Kokoomus (National Coalition Party, centre-right/right wing liberal conservative, your typical neoliberal demons who only care about making the rich even richer and punishing the poor for existing, they lead the coalition)
us: uskovaiset = the religious = Kristillisdemokraatit (Christian Democrats, right wing, they’re pretty much NCP but they love Israel even more and hate everything)
You know how people have been doing those horrible crimes where they destroy datacentres?
I hope people don’t realize the same thing can be done to places like Google’s offices. But if they do, I also hope they’d be responsible enough to make sure no low/mid level employees were in the building. I bet, and this is just too sad, that the executives would be the prime targets 😔
That would be tragic. Super duper tragic.
So tragic.
Tragic.
Now I wonder why you only see ethics neglecting data-centers in the US.
Because it’s the only one currently where the governing bodies are puppets of the Epstein class.
Fair ig
As Finnish newspaper Kalevareported last month, 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 the European nation 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.
“Either this is gross incompetence from Google’s Finnish project company, Tuike Finland Oy, or gross disregard for Finnish legislation, or at worst both,” said the association’s chair, Hanna Halmeenpää, in a statement, as translated by Wood Central.
For those who haven’t looked at it
Google razed the forest without the environmental assessments to whether they could do that or not, aka ‘fuck your laws and the wildlife’
It’s a bit more complicated. Tuike tried to argue that the project wouldn’t need that assessment as it wasn’t being done as part of commercially selling trees from a natural forest as a “natural resource” as the law was worded, and they tried to ask for a “case by case” exemption that would allow them to start the clearing without having to wait for the whole lengthy assessment process to go through the systems. That exception got rejected because “Forest nature does not only mean forests in their natural state, but also forests used for forestry” (the Finnish words being “luonnonvara”, “metsäluento” and “luonnontilainen metsä”.)
They might have been technically fine had they not sold any of the trees. But, I mean, what else can you do with 300 hectares of trees?
Fine them $1 billion per tree. Seriously. It has to really hurt them, or it will just be “the cost of doing business.” It has to be bad enough that they must sell off a division or two, and their stock has to tank 33% or more, so they, and everybody else watching, takes a hard lesson from it.
Won’t happen. I hope I’m wrong. But I don’t think I am.
If they needed a moral reminder, they were nutz from the very start.
Ecodefense is a pretty good and relevant light read!
Yeah, it’s negligence. They gambled on any paltry fine being worth it, and still being allowed o proceed.
Wasn’t their slogan, “Be as evil as possible” ?
This is what I’m expecting with the Palantir CEO dude buying up a bunch of forest in Sweden recently. The statement is
Den nya ägaren av skogsfastigheten är mån om markens skönhet och dess bevarande. De vidsträckta, naturliga skogslandskapen erbjuder värdefulla livsmiljöer för växter och djur, samtidigt som de utgör en plats för rekreation och återhämtning
The new owner of the forest property cares for the beauty of the property, and its preservation. The wide, natural forest landscapes provide valuable living space for plants and animals, while simultaneously providing a spot for recreation and respite.
We have “allemansrätten” here, as in you can go to and camp more or less anywhere. You don’t need to own the property to enjoy its natural beauty, or recreate there.
It’s definitely going to be used for something vile. A datacentre or something.
With that motherfucker it’ll be something vile or the kind of concentrated cringe that makes your earwax melt just sharing a biosphere with it.
Probably both.
The things that truly “slipped their leash” recently are the fucking tech companies.
They need a good humbling, and their own hubris will be the thing to do it.
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Better to pay the small fine, than ask permission.
Fuck the techbros, fuck AI, fuck data centers, fuck billionaires.
Gross “We did it knowing nobody was going to prosecute us because Trump and that’s what bribes are for” reasons.
Basic conservatism.
It’s in Europe.
So <insert name of different politician> then
The “move fast, break laws, reap profits, socialize losses” strategy.
Fuck em. Fuck em all with a fork in the eye.
“move fast and break things” applied to the ecology and humans. Except without the “fix it” stage
