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
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar
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