Problem:
Google illegally fells 250,000 trees
Solution: fine them. How much?
Muhos and Otanmäki are part of a €13bn AI infrastructure project by Google
13bn seems fair.
Force them to replant 👌
Tragic thing is that sticking trees back in the ground does not replace what’s been lost. Ecosystems take decades if not centuries. I think they should be paying for replanting, biologists and arborists oversight for a couple decades, and a crew to maintain and care for them.
Yeah, anything but allow the land to be commercially used
13bn + damage.
The only way they’ll stop is if the land gets seized to be converted into a park and they have to pay for it to be reforested.
If they just pay a fine and get to keep going, it’s a cost of business
Make them have to start over, and they’ll stop doing it.
I hope something like this will happen, it probably won’t though.
You’re allowed to defend your land with force.
This is awful, and we should expect stuff like this to happen more often…
I would have liked the article to be a little more specific on the details of how the law was broken though.
Unfortunately, locals need to physically defend their forests and natural resources from these AI corporations. The law is much too slow.
They need a fucking chipko aandolan
Didn’t locals help transform those trees into lumber?
From the article “the illegally felled timber cannot be sold commercially.”
The loggers may not have been local but I dont think you drop 250k trees without a shit load of people noticing. The data center as a whole project will swell workers and trade jobs in the area during the construction for a facility large enough to warrant that much clearing.
I think many in the local area were fine with it while opponents are getting good coverage now.
Fine them a million euro’s a tree!
~250,000,000,000 per tree :3
Vote right-wing again, I dare you, Finland. Maybe then you’ll learn what happens to your forests, just like the global south has.
Strange that no one google’d if Finland actually needed those trees. You’d think Gemini would say, ‘Yeah, they need dem trees…’ right?)
What’s more important, the needs of a company with the wealth of a small country or… a small country?
If the trees are needed by Finland is irrelevant if they were taken down without permission.
Not excusing anything here but it’s not like the Finns treat their forests with respect either. The entire country is a tree farm.
Source for this claim?
Satellite view
Can dig more sources for you regarding draining of ecosystems tomorrow
In 2025, roundwood consumption in Finland totalled 78.9 million cubic metres, representing a 3% increase from the previous year. Forest industry production accounted for 84% of the volume, while the remainder was used for energy production.
– [ Wood consumption 2025 (provisional)]https://www.luke.fi/en/statistics/wood-consumption/wood-consumption-2025-provisional)
Compared to the previous inventory, forest resources have continued to increase but the average annual increment has declined from 107.8 M m3 to 103.0 M m3.
– Forests of Finland 2019–2023 and their development 1921–2023
That leaves 20 million cubic metres of wood in tact in Finland.
Timberland is really not a healthy forest. Those are very different things.
Where are you getting that it’s timberland?
