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29 Oct 2026
🇫🇮 What is said about Finland
Finnish police are investigating whether Google’s local subsidiary broke environmental laws by clearing forest and draining land near Muhos before required environmental impact assessments were completed. Authorities ordered work to stop in early October, and the forest clearance has prompted widespread anger in Finland.
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Finnish police have launched a criminal investigation into suspected breaches of environmental law at the construction site of a planned Google data centre in northern Finland. The project is part of a $15bn deal announced last month by Alphabet’s Google to invest in AI infrastructure in Finland. Authorities have said Tuike Finland, a local subsidiary of Google, conducted forest clearing and drainage at a planned site near the town of Muhos, before the environmental impact assessments required under Finnish law had been completed. Videos and photographs showing the scale of the forest clearance at the site of the data centre, and Google’s initial reluctance to address the issue in the days after the news broke, have prompted widespread anger in Finland. Finnish authorities ordered Google to stop work at the data centre site at the start of October.
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