Wolves enter Finnish villages after Google clears 1300 acres for AI data centers

xg15 1 day ago
> “We look forward to maintaining an active, open dialogue with all authorities to strengthen our partnership with Finland and local organizations.”
I also like to have active, open conversations with the police after I've borrowed things from the store...
Gravityloss 2 days ago
A wolfpack territory is typically about 1000 square kilometers. The forest cut was 3 square kilometers. So while there might be effects, need to set it in context.
- stonogo 1 day ago
  Estimates I've seen from professionals tend to put that number a couple of orders of magnitude lower.
  However, I don't think it's a coincidence that Finland's wolf population was in the headlines last year for growing by half.
- cyanydeez 1 day ago
  Tommorrows comment: the wolfpacks terrirtory is 997 km, and the force cut was 6 km....
  context for you today, context for you, tomorrow.
- Fricken 1 day ago
  Human's territory covers the whole planet. I can get to the far side of it in less than a day. You can wipe out a whole continent, the people there can easily just move to another one.
  - Gravityloss 1 day ago
    I mean if 0.3% of your home was invaded by a cabinet, you could probably still live there. In reality it's a bit more since the 1000 square km involves fields and lakes, so maybe 1%.
ChrisArchitect 1 day ago
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50194283)
donkey_brains 1 day ago
Maybe now people will see that decrying the environmental impacts of data centers isn't just "crying wolf"!