I hope someone will provide info this is not true.

What about the local lumberjacks who took the money and did the job?

Vert much true. No fine or punishment atleast not yet...but the pressure is on.

How do they hire ppl to cut those trees, must have been a huge operation involving many ppl. Didnt they have to show them any official papers for permission?

Finnland is a great country for storing data. It's cold, up north you even have permafrost... Just ban them from the country and give competitors a discount. Also, whoever resells to Google will be banned too. That must be the threat. Anything else doesn't matter to them. Fuck Go

best judge: replace every thing 10x and leave the country.

Fines are fine (pun intended), the only issue is they're not proportional. If they're capped then there will be inevitably a case when someone can make money by breaking the law and paying a fine. If the fine would be calculated from, say, projected income of the project for next

yes, its true, 530 hectares, 400,000 trees, and since its illegal to sell them, they are being destroyed, and proposed justification is Data Center. they have been legally halted from further damage till the courts can decide.

Google makes 1.4 billion dollars a day. Fun fact: Google's motto back in the day was "don't be evil" I wonder why they removed it!

The fine should be they lose the ownership of that land, have to replant the tree's and 10% of googles net worth.

In my third-world country, if you clear a forest illegally, the government fucks you with massive fines and forces you to reforest the area. If you begin construction illegally, you will be forced to demolish it. If Google really did it illegally and gets away with it, the proble