AI Infrastructure

Finland Orders Google to Halt Data Center Works After Premature Logging

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Finland Orders Google to Halt Data Center Works After Premature Logging

Finland’s national authority LVV has ordered Tuike Finland Oy, Google’s Finnish subsidiary, to immediately suspend land-preparation work at two planned data center locations: Muhos, where roughly 330 hectares are affected, and Kajaani/Otanmäki, covering about 200 hectares. The reason: trees were felled before the mandatory Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) had been completed. Google has until 14 … Read more

Finland Orders Google to Halt Forest Clearing at €13B Data Center Sites

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Finland Orders Google to Halt Forest Clearing at €13B Data Center Sites

Finland’s environmental licensing authority has ordered Google’s Finnish subsidiary to immediately suspend environmentally significant site preparation at two planned data center locations after contractors cleared hundreds of hectares of forest before mandatory environmental reviews were finished. The affected sites are Muhos and Kajaani, both part of a broader €13 billion Finnish buildout that the company … Read more

Amazon Scraps Data Center NDAs and Pledges $1B to Host Communities

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Amazon Scraps Data Center NDAs and Pledges B to Host Communities

Amazon Web Services has quietly retired one of the most criticised tools in its data center playbook: the nondisclosure agreement. AWS chief executive Matt Garman confirmed the shift in a single line buried inside a long blog post defending the company’s infrastructure buildout, stating that Amazon no longer uses NDAs with the government agencies it … Read more