‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

Filed by Elara Myst

Finnish forest cleared for data centre developmentCompany ordered to stop work at two sites in country, which has found itself at forefront of tech firms’ latest pushBehind a wire fence lies a vast gaping wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone.After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a ..