Finland halts construction of two Google data centers over environmental concerns

Finland's regulator LVV ordered Google to halt construction of two data centers after hundreds of hectares of old-growth forest were cleared, just a month after Google pledged $15 billion in Finnish AI infrastructure. The move highlights growing tension between AI compute expansion and environmental protection.

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