Why “Finnish” is being discussed
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The origin of "420 soccer pitches" is probably the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation and their press release: https://www.sll.fi/ajankohtaista/data…
by veeti · Oct 23, 2026
> AI will end up being just slightly more expensive than the raw electricity required to produce it. AFAICT, this hasn't happened for any "cloud" compute company that has been i…
by simoncion · Oct 23, 2026
This is the kind of "paperwork maximal" nonsense that is killing Europe. Google DID apply for the right permissions, and they even had a consultant on the ground with years of e…
by TheMagicHorsey · Oct 22, 2026
> For anyone else who can never remember how much a hectare is and think "420 football fields" sounds more like some weed joke than an area It turns out there's something much w…
by thaumasiotes · Oct 22, 2026
What a shameful lack of planning and foresight. One fourth in joke, three fourths seriously, I say that Google should have built their datacenter underground in this case. First…
by dsign · Oct 22, 2026
There's also another hypothetical angle to consider which is that Google's egregious deforestation here may be somewhat self-limited due to prior knowledge of Finnish environmen…
by y-c-o-m-b · Oct 22, 2026
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Finnish may refer to:Something or someone from, or related to Finland Culture of Finland Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people Finnish cuisine Read more on Wikipedia