Post by @yngmar@social.tchncs.de

Google illegally chopping down a massive forest in Finland and even removing the topsoil so nothing can grow again.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre

Makes sense. If copyright no longer applies to big corporations, as LLMs have shown, then why should any other regulation?

I'm not sure an appropriate fine is even possible for this. And you can't put that forest back.

I predict we'll be having angry people burning down datacenters in the next couple years.

#Google #Deforestation #Datacenter #Finland

the Guardian

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

Company ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest push

#deforestation #datacenter #google #finland

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Sebastian Lasse

@sl007@digitalcourage.social 40 min. ago

@yngmar

Now I get the point why some Tech fascist lobbyists went to Finland …
https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/110134992144146638

Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

@markwyner@mas.to yesterday

@yngmar

“I predict we'll be having angry people burning down datacenters in the next couple years.”

I hope so. I’ll bring my chair, so I can watch the show.

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@wmd@chaos.social yesterday

@yngmar they should pay the cost for returning that forest, even if that is a multi generational project. Either payed up front calculating inflation for generations to come, or attached to wherever the value of the companies behind it lie.