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Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest for a data center, and regulators want answers

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Cutting corners: Google recently announced a major expansion of its data center footprint in Finland. The US company plans to invest billions in the new infrastructure but is allegedly moving a bit too quickly with its forest-clearing plans. Regulators are now looking into the matter, and the outcome could have far-reaching consequences for the broader market.

Google was apparently so eager to build its new data center infrastructure in Finland that it began bulldozing large swaths of forest before the required environmental review of the full plan was complete. The work could now be suspended, just as other major data center projects are being delayed in the US and elsewhere around the world.

The issue surfacedlast month, when Finland's Permit and Supervision Agency (Lupa- ja valvontavirasto, or LVV) asked Tuike Finland Oy...

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