Google is accused of illegally cutting down 250,000 trees in Finland to build data centers

Updated 2026-10-25 · told from many outlets at once

Google cut down 250,000 trees in a forest near Muhos, Finland, and operated a data center in Hamina. The company was ordered to pause work at two sites, apologized, and faced public backlash over deforestation.

Google illegally felled over 250 thousand Finnish trees.
Google was ordered to temporarily stop work at two Finnish datacentre sites.
More than 96,000 people signed a citizens’ initiative for tighter data center control.
Annala estimates that 150,000 other trees were cut down in Otanmäki.
Google's data center project in Finland is valued at 13 billion euros.

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