Finland: Google illegally fells 250000 trees for data center

Thanks, Capitalism!

#1 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-22 01:53 PM | Reply

Didn't that CEO from Palantir just buy like 300,000 acres in Finland? I forget his name but he's the one with the ------ up, Fraggle Rock hair.

I have a feeling they're in for more of this.

#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-10-22 02:02 PM | Reply

Google doesn't care. They don't have to care.

Remember years ago when google used to use the saying, ~do no harm,~ and how ironic it sounded back then?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-22 02:28 PM | Reply

@#3 ... when google used to use the saying, ~do no harm,~ ...

My error.

The correct saying ...?

Don't be evil
en.wikipedia.org't_be_evil

... "Don't be evil" was formerly Google's motto, and a phrase used in Google's corporate code of conduct.[1][2][3][4]

One of Google's early uses of the motto was in the prospectus for its 2004 IPO. In 2015, following Google's corporate restructuring as a subsidiary of the conglomerate Alphabet Inc., Google's code of conduct continued to use its original motto, while Alphabet's code of conduct used the motto "Do the right thing".[5][6][7][1][8] In 2018, Google removed its original motto from the preface of its code of conduct but retained it in the last sentence.[9] ...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-22 08:49 PM | Reply

AI is moving fairly rapidly to a laptop near you... Big white elephants in the making... Remember Bill "nobody needs a personal computer".... what was a mainframe again?...

#5 | Posted by South_American at 2026-10-22 11:20 PM | Reply