Google AI data center project accused of destroying 300 hectares of Finnish forest — as critics brand Microsoft’s ‘nature-inspired designs’ for 20 facilities as ‘lipstick on a pig’
- Google is accused of destroying 300 hectares of forest for a data center
- Microsoft’s data center plans are ‘lipstick on a pig,’ a critic argues
- Some residents are pushing back against further data center plans
Big Tech firms like to tout their environmental credentials, positioning themselves as responsible stewards of the planet’s welfare. Yet you’d be forgiven for viewing those claims more than a little skeptically in the artificial intelligence (AI) era — after all, a slew of recent reports have suggested that such environmental posturing has a bad habit of withering away when there is money to be made.
Google, for example — whose sustainability web page is emblazoned with the headline “Making AI helpful for everyone, including the planet” — has been accused of destroying 300 hectares of Finnish forest (equivalent to roughly 500 football fields) to clear space for an AI data centerbefore an environmental-impact...
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