Finnish police said on Thursday they had launched a criminal investigation into suspected breaches of environmental law at the construction site of a planned Google data centre in northern Finland.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    Surely to God foreigners (especially foreign corporations) can’t just come and do that shit in a country. There must have been some signoff by the local authorities, otherwise isn’t that an invasion?

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      7 days ago

      No, it isn’t an invasion. Google bought and owned this land, then started construction before getting the permits to do so.

      This is like you buying a small vacation land by a lake in another country, then starting to build a cabin on it before getting permits to build. You aren’t invading that country.