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If this is indicative of how people are actually thinking in the tech industry these days, then it's doomed. It will devour itself.

Old growth forest don't just come back.

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I agree, and, want to point out this wasn't old growth forest. At least, none of the standing trees in the photos look like old growth. If it was, that would be a huge story, but it would have been very odd for Google to put a data center in old growth forest. Almost all of Finland is covered by managed/logged forests like this, so it's kind of inevitable if building a datacenter there that it is going to replace forest.

The same is true in much of the world actually, over half of the earth's surface was forested before humans started clearing it.

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