Timeline for Hamina
#17 20 Oct
Hosted the 2018-19 habitat clearance
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Finland's LVV halts Google's site worksBackground
Hamina is a coastal town in south-east Finland. Google's local data-centre campus occupies a converted former paper mill.
Google opened its first facility at the site in 2011 and has continued expanding the campus.
Common Questions
Where is Hamina?
What Google infrastructure is in Hamina?
Google operates a data-centre campus in a converted former paper mill and opened its first facility there in 2011.Source: Google
What happened to flying-squirrel habitat at Google's Hamina site?
Google's subsidiary cleared about 1.3 hectares of nesting trees, feeding areas and travel corridors without permission during 2018 and 2019 works.Source: Yle
Why was there no police report over the Hamina clearance?
The authorities treated the clearance as inadvertent under the law then in force. An LVV official said the current law sets a lower reporting threshold.Source: Yle
How the World Sees Them
Google
fallen short of our own high standards
Willemijn Aerdts
because that is precisely where the bottlenecks are
Cho Kyoung-tae
They blocked direct LNG deals and told us to take power from the national grid, so raising the bar now makes no sense
Nscale
committed to both the Loughton project and the UK
Tina Kotek, Governor of Oregon
pause processing and issuance of air or water discharge permit applications
Jitin Prasada, junior minister for electronics and IT
We don't want to get into that.
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