The “move fast, break laws, reap profits, socialize losses” strategy.

Fuck em. Fuck em all with a fork in the eye.

Gross “We did it knowing nobody was going to prosecute us because Trump and that’s what bribes are for” reasons.

This is TERRIBLE! And to make sure it DOESNT happen AGAIN we’re going to Write a SEMI STERN LETTER while they PROCEED with Construction!

-The Finnish Government?

When the fines aren’t big enough, they’re just the cost of doing business.

Penalties for fuckery like this should be at GDPR levels, meaning a percentage of global turnover of the parent company.

Better to pay the small fine, than ask permission.

Fuck the techbros, fuck AI, fuck data centers, fuck billionaires.

Add it to KilledByGoogle.com

Google’s green image looks increasingly like a marketing layer over an industrial land grab. A company worth trillions wants ever more land, power and water for AI, and now it’s accused of clearing Finnish forest before environmental assessments were complete.

You know how people have been doing those horrible crimes where they destroy datacentres?

I hope people don’t realize the same thing can be done to places like Google’s offices. But if they do, I also hope they’d be responsible enough to make sure no low/mid level employees were in the building. I bet, and this is just too sad, that the executives would be the prime targets 😔

That would be tragic. Super duper tragic.

So tragic.

Tragic.

Wasn’t their slogan, “Be as evil as possible” ?

Now I wonder why you only see ethics neglecting data-centers in the US.

Ecodefense is a pretty good and relevant light read!

google fucking up my country, as if i couldnt hate them enough already

Yeah, it’s negligence. They gambled on any paltry fine being worth it, and still being allowed o proceed.

The things that truly “slipped their leash” recently are the fucking tech companies.