Google's felling of 250,000 trees for a datacentre is an illegal act that harms the environment.
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Google's felling of 250,000 trees for a datacentre is an illegal act that harms the environment.
Parent: Corporate ResponsibilityEntity: GoogleSub-entity: Datacentre OperationsImpact: negativeDate: Oct 22, 2026 - Oct 23, 2026Target: Google's actions in felling trees for datacentre development
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NO DOUBT ABOUT IT -- PURE EVIL: 'Pure arrogance': anger in Finland as #Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
Google replies, "OOPS!" Politicians in Finland pushing this crap are probably about to learn the lesson of data center crony politicos here in the U.S. -L
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre
16 boosts · 11 favs · 2 replies · Oct 23, 2026
#google
‘Pure arrogance’: anger in #Finland as #Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for #datacentre
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre
4 boosts · 6 favs · 1 replies · Oct 22, 2026
#finland#google#datacentre
‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre
8 boosts · 5 favs · 0 replies · Oct 22, 2026
‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as #Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre
5 boosts · 2 favs · 0 replies · Oct 23, 2026
#google
‘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
Miranda Bryant in Muhos and Otanmäki
Thu 22 Oct 2026
"Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of #Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone.
"After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the #TopSoil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with the trail marks of machinery, puddles and mounds of earth, roots and branches. Residents say that brown water flowing off the site is going into a stream that feeds the #OulujokiRiver.
" 'It doesn’t end. It goes on and on,” says Mari Annala, an ecologist from the Finnish Association for #NatureConservation ( #SLL ), looking at drone footage of the former forest from the perimeter."
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre
#NoDatacentres #NoDatacenters #AIDatacentres #SaveTheTrees #BigTech #MoreTreesLessDatacenters #TreesAreLife #SoilIsLife #LandIsLife
7 boosts · 1 favs · 1 replies · Oct 22, 2026
#finland#google#trees#datacentre#muhos#topsoil
Finns Are Seething After Google Illegally Toppled 250,000 Trees for a Data Center
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/finland-finns-angry-google-illegal-clear-cutting-trees-data-center/
1 boosts · 1 favs · 0 replies · Oct 23, 2026
"‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre
We all know that the "Don't be evil" days are over, but felling 250k trees for a data center? At what point will attacking Big Tech companies and their assets count as self-defense?
11 boosts · 1 favs · 2 replies · Oct 22, 2026
‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre
#Google #Finland #Environment #TechGiant
0 boosts · 1 favs · 0 replies · Oct 22, 2026
#google#finland#environment#techgiant
‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre | Environment | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre
0 boosts · 1 favs · 0 replies · Oct 23, 2026
'Pure arrogance': anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre
http://www.memeorandum.com/261022/p146#a261022p146
0 boosts · 0 favs · 0 replies · Oct 23, 2026
‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre
Capitalism will destroy the biosphere. The climate catastrophe is just one of many problems. The young children of the world have every right to kill us all in the future.
6 boosts · 0 favs · 0 replies · Oct 23, 2026
‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre | Environment | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre #datacenters #finland #google #lawbreaking
0 boosts · 0 favs · 0 replies · Oct 23, 2026
#lawbreaking#google#finland#datacenters
Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
Fine a Billion usd and throw the assholes out of finland entirely.
Better throw google and all other us services out of entire EU.
VERY FAST
0 boosts · 0 favs · 0 replies · Oct 22, 2026
‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
9 boosts · 0 favs · 0 replies · Oct 22, 2026
#Google. I remember when Google said: "Don't be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served—as shareholders and in all other ways—by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains."
Times change, it seems.
‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
5 boosts · 0 favs · 0 replies · Oct 22, 2026
#google