Muhos
Northern Finnish municipality where regulators halted Google's data-centre site preparation.
As at 22 October 2026, Muhos is a North Ostrobothnian municipality south-east of Oulu and the proposed site of a Google data-centre project.
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Hosted preparatory works LVV ordered halted
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Finland's LVV halts Google's site worksBackground
Muhos is a municipality in North Ostrobothnia, about 35 kilometres south-east of Oulu. Tuike Finland, Google's Finnish subsidiary, is preparing a data-centre project there.
Finland's Licensing and Supervisory Agency ordered environmentally significant preparation to stop pending the project's environmental-impact assessment. The order covered tree clearance, topsoil removal, excavation, blasting, earth moving, drainage, site roads and storage areas. Planning, minor surveys and other work without significant environmental effects could continue.
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