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I don't get it, what did they expect when they sold a 3x2km area to Google to build a data center?

The space around the town is entirely cultivated land for tens of kms across, hundreds of times the land that they sold to Google- and that land too once had been forest and was felled by the Finns to make space for agriculture. Is anyone outraged about this?

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Difference is that most people/companies try to follow laws while doing that.

Also the entity selling the land is ofc not the same as the entity enforcing the law. I assume that everyone was kind of expecting that they would follow the laws.

Ok, I don't know the details, but if the land had been re-zoned for industrial use, it was obvious that it was going to be cleared of the forest.

The weird part is that they would’ve gotten the right permit in a few weeks. Now they are just sending a message that they are above the law. Even if you are allowed to do something, it doesn’t mean there isn’t limitations how you can do it.

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