Google street view imagery of the site showing logging completed by June 2026 and logs waiting collection: [1]

Sentinel-2 L2A imagery from 2026-10-11 showing the logged area: [2]

[1] https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/91500+Tahvola,+Finland/...

[2] https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/?zoom=15&lat=64.8369...

it would consider enforcement proceedings and a fine

Oh man they are going to consider a fine, that would probably be barely an inconvenience to google.

Google said in a statement “we understand the concerns” and that it had “fallen short of our own high standards”.

Apple said the same rhetorical non-apology apologetically, recently... about something??

Previously: https://smackernews.com/item/49968324 HN

https://smackernews.com/item/49982364 HN

Or it might be one of those cases where the discretionary BS you can be put through is so onerous and capricious that the cheapest way to get it done is to bulldoze first, let the threats fly and use whatever legal maneuvering that gets you to wind up with a more favorable venue (the higher up you go the more friendly to industry permitting authorities tend to become).

1791482563 | Finland orders Google unit to halt work at 2 planned data centers | https://qazinform.com/news/finland-orders-google-unit-to-hal... | https://smackernews.com/item/50009487 HN | 0 comments

"One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center"

https://www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-americas-last-chestnut-g...

- Fell 330 hectares of forest for Data Center 1

- Fell 200 hectares of forest for Data Center 2

Founders need to speak on this. If they've got time to get in the weeds on gemini, they've got time for this

Pick your poison, basically.

If Google does not comply, IVV said it would consider enforcement proceedings and a fine.

Ah. A fine. That'll teach them.

(No wonder they ignored you.)

Also, if this forest was being cut down to build an organic vegetable farm or preschool or petting zoo, would we be seeing the same headline? Not a chance in hell. This part is the most egregious reach to me:

    > The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation said the sites had been reduced to “sand”

Google said in a statement “we understand the concerns” and that it had “fallen short of our own high standards”.

But it wasn't their own high standards, it was a legal obligation that they neglected?

I hope in vain that the powers that be are able to punish them in a way they will actually feel...

I don’t know much about Findland, so maybe there are trees everywhere.

I'd like to know what really happened.

[1] https://youtu.be/L3LbxDZRgA4