Comment by taikahessu

Well, this had many layers to it. Small municipality wants the tax money. The municipality's inspector is/was being fired for talking to the press. Google's own regional director played hide and seek with the press. It's not like there's more pressing matters than a giant local datacenter being built. And once he spoke and gave a nonpology, basically lying. The biggest media outlet Helsingin Sanomat put it succinctly: so much intelligence, but none of it was used. All they (Google) had to do was google it, the information of necessary filings are clear. We Finns like to do things by the book. Here corners were obviously deliberately cut. Nobody is crying out for the actual forest loss (though it's not nothing either). It's the principal of having multinational corpos come and suck up the land and resources, and play by their own rules. Our current economy is shit. In the big picture, this whole charade was not a good look on anyone. But it is what it is.