> ...average Elias will also get no or next to no negative consequences making a very similar mistake on average Elias's scale.

1) The same consequences are probably a lot less "next to no" on Elias's scale.

2) As Uncle Joe is said to have said, "enough quantity becomes a quality of its own". Google-scale chopping down trees is not just a little bigger, it's so much bigger that it becomes a fundamentally different thing than Elias-scale wrong composting.

So yes, anything short of shutting down any plans for new Google data centers in Finland[1] is Google getting favourable treatment; that claim is not incorrect.

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[1]: And preferably shutting down any existing ones, too. Just so they, and others like them, maybe will learn.