Finland orders Google to stop clearing forest at two data centre sites
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Finland halting forest clearing at two Google data center sites shows that environmental permitting — not just power and chips — can bottleneck AI infra buildout. If you’re planning large-scale compute, map local land-use and regulatory risk as a first-class constraint, not an afterthought.
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