Guardian: Anger in Finland as Google Illegally Fells 250,000 Trees for Datacentre
And the trees can’t even be used.
I switched out of Gmail yesterday. And increasingly use Ecosia for web searches.
In addition to the 250,000 trees felled at Muhos, Mari Annala, an ecologist from the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation (SLL), estimates that an additional 150,000 trees were felled at Otanmäki. Because the trees have been felled illegally, she says wood from the two sites cannot be sold to wood-processing plants.
The move has also prompted questions over why Finland’s renewable energy sources are being used to power international corporations.
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This is unbelievable…
They ought to be removed from Finland / Europe