2026-10-22 21:55 UTC
Google illegally chopping down a massive forest in Finland and even removing the topsoil so nothing can grow again.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre
Makes sense. If copyright no longer applies to big corporations, as LLMs have shown, then why should any other regulation?
I'm not sure an appropriate fine is even possible for this. And you can't put that forest back.
I predict we'll be having angry people burning down datacenters in the next couple years.
#Google #Deforestation #Datacenter #Finland
Replies (3)
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@tripleman@mastodon.social 2026-10-22 22:07
@yngmar@social.tchncs.de Much easier to take out their HVAC systems.
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@Vonskinnback@mastodon.social 2026-10-22 22:38
@yngmar@social.tchncs.de if they can destroy a whole forest & the ability for anything else to grow there ever again illegally without any punishment then clearly destroying an entire data center so no LLM can ever compute a single pointless question ever again is a perfectly reasonable response, all retaliation should be like for like...
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@MissGayle@urbanists.social 2026-10-22 22:39
@yngmar@social.tchncs.de Why wait?