As Finnish newspaper Kalevareported last month, Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields — for two new data centers in the northern part of the European nation without concluding the necessary environmental assessments.
Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors started clearing trees in the area months ago, raising the alarm bells at the Finnish Nature Conservation Association.
“Either this is gross incompetence from Google’s Finnish project company, Tuike Finland Oy, or gross disregard for Finnish legislation, or at worst both,” said the association’s chair, Hanna Halmeenpää, in a statement, as translated by Wood Central.
For those who haven’t looked at it
Google razed the forest without the environmental assessments to whether they could do that or not, aka ‘fuck your laws and the wildlife’
If they needed a moral reminder, they were nutz from the very start.
The things that truly “slipped their leash” recently are the fucking tech companies.
They need a good humbling, and their own hubris will be the thing to do it.
Wasn’t their slogan, “Be as evil as possible” ?
This is what I’m expecting with the Palantir CEO dude buying up a bunch of forest in Sweden recently. The statement is
Den nya ägaren av skogsfastigheten är mån om markens skönhet och dess bevarande. De vidsträckta, naturliga skogslandskapen erbjuder värdefulla livsmiljöer för växter och djur, samtidigt som de utgör en plats för rekreation och återhämtning
The new owner of the forest property cares for the beauty of the property, and its preservation. The wide, natural forest landscapes provide valuable living space for plants and animals, while simultaneously providing a spot for recreation and respite.
We have “allemansrätten” here, as in you can go to and camp more or less anywhere. You don’t need to own the property to enjoy its natural beauty, or recreate there.
It’s definitely going to be used for something vile. A datacentre or something.
Better to pay the small fine, than ask permission.
Fuck the techbros, fuck AI, fuck data centers, fuck billionaires.
Gross “We did it knowing nobody was going to prosecute us because Trump and that’s what bribes are for” reasons.
Basic conservatism.
It’s in Europe.
So <insert name of different politician> then
Amazing how no one here opened and read the link but still felt they have to comment a wall of angry dogma.
I’ve read the article and I don’t really understand your comment. Could you elaborate?
“Incompetence” implies it was unintentional. This was completely intentional.
“Disregard of the law” implies there is some law against this. Any law that will not punish the offender is not a law. So there was no “disregard” of any law in this case.
Sundar Pichai is a conservative. His company leadership reflects conservative values, such as destruction of the environment, supporting genocide, supporting war and supporting fascism.
Conservatism is cancer. The disease has metastasized and has infected most major corporations in the U.S., including Google. I’m not sure a cure is possible, but the treatment for it is not peaceful or pretty. We would need thousands more people named Luigi to be willing to perform heroic, selfless acts.
These sociopathic bastards think that anything that isn’t explicitly illegal under the law has social consent. The asshole Microsoft CEO even said as much publicly.
I would say capitalism is the cancer, but conservatism sure supports it.
Unchecked capitalism is the direct result of unchecked conservatism. If not for conservatives, the normal people would be permitted to regulate capitalists and determin how much capitalism is acceptable in our modern culture.
Under conservatism, the normal people are not even permitted to charge capitalists with crimes, force them to pay fair taxes or force them to pay fair wages. Is it only conservatives who protect capitalists from the regulating hand of the normal people.
Conservatives are the ones who do the dirty work of union busting and passing laws that protect capitalists, even when it directly harms the public.
If not for conservatives, the normal people would be permitted to regulate or abolish capitalism as we choose. Conservatives have always opposed regulations for capitalists. They will resort to violence in their protection of the wealthy.
We cannot defeat the boss until his foot-soldiers are dead.
Remember when they put climate scores for all publicly traded companies on their Google Finance? It’s almost like they never a mean a single thing they say.
ESG scores in general do not mean anything either.
The “move fast, break laws, reap profits, socialize losses” strategy.
Fuck em. Fuck em all with a fork in the eye.
“move fast and break things” applied to the ecology and humans. Except without the “fix it” stage
Google needs to be broken up and regulated. That they were not found to be a monopoly by Judge Mehta was a travesty. I probably don’t have to convince anyone here about how bad Google is, but seeing as they keep pulling nonsense like this and causing environmental harm is ridiculous. They need to keep growing forever for the sake of investors, no matter how much harm they cause. I avoid their services like the plague. Sorry to go on and on, but Google is one of the worst companies out there right now, closely tied with Meta.
Google was born from In-Q-Tel. they’re literally the CIA. How uninformed is the average internet user to not see that the entire techbro oligopoly is simply the mask dropping? Sometimes I wonder what the koolaid tastes like. To believe that things just happen uncaused, that geopolitics is the weather, and that conspiracies are better explained by emergent behavior. That it’s never malice, just stupidity. That the top 1% is not on the far end of the bell curve, that they’re not merely pretending to be retarded. You know it’s like looking at the top chess players and concluding that it’s not skill (or anal beads), but dumb luck.
In other words the thing I’m mocking (and being downvoted for) is the notion that Google can be split up when it acts as an extension of the government. It’s like asking a person to cut off their own arm. Of course they won’t.
They don’t have to be super intelligent to do what you describe. Intelligence os relative, when you make these observations, seeing super intelligence is telling on yourself.
Embrass it but don’t pretend it’s your super power.
It’s both.
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