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- Where does the linked article say anything about trees? It's about water managementby nazgulsenpai
- Nothing will happen, calling it now.by ActionHank
- I'm confused - isn't a contractor (Tuike Finland) doing and being responsible for this work?by eithed
- This is what happens when you think you can skip the environmental assessment:
> “We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest,” Anni Ranta, a resident of Otanmaki, told The Guardian. “They fled.”
https://fortune.com/2026/10/26/wolves-finland-google-1300-ac...
by tremon - The HN submission title is wrong and editorialised. Google is not being investigated for cutting trees. They're being investigated for environmental damage, including drainage and water management at the site. There's been reports of water running from the site out into the environment. The local residents have been worried over brown, muddy water streaming out from the clearance site into the surrounding nature (https://www.hs.fi/suomi/art-2000012327899.html).by Hamuko
- Not to excuse things, but was this an industrial monoculture tree farm that they replaced with a data centre? This isn't "wild" forest, is it?by mig39
- It's a weird story. There must have been dozens of approvals by the government for this project.
- Discussion on previous developments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50194283