Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares of forest for new data centers in Finland without the required environmental assessments.
  • Manjushri@piefed.socialEnglish
    15·
    10 hours ago

    This is what happens when corporate crimes are punished with just slap-on-the-wrist fines that can be written off as a cost of doing business. Why should they obey the law? There is no downside to breaking it.

  • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
    211·
    14 hours ago

    300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields

    Thanks for the context. As someone who lives in the US, I wouldn’t have been able to put that to scale otherwise.

    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 hours ago

      500 football fields does not properly convey the size at all.

      Why they choose stupid things like that or buses or whatever is beyond me.

      1.15 square milea or ~ 3 square kilometers is much more easily perceived.