Finland drops first-come, first-served grid connections — leaving data centers way down the queue
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Power access is becoming a policy lever, not a utility — Finland putting 10MW+ data centers at the back of the queue unless they bring their own generation is a template others can copy. If you're planning large-scale compute in Europe, you now have to underwrite local energy — not just rent it.
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