Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project: It's "gross incompetence," or "gross disregard" for the law. Or both.

9 days ago by eicker to c/technology

Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares of forest for new data centers in Finland without the required environmental assessments.
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EliteCloneMike 18 points 9 days ago

Google needs to be broken up and regulated. That they were not found to be a monopoly by Judge Mehta was a travesty. I probably don’t have to convince anyone here about how bad Google is, but seeing as they keep pulling nonsense like this and causing environmental harm is ridiculous. They need to keep growing forever for the sake of investors, no matter how much harm they cause. I avoid their services like the plague. Sorry to go on and on, but Google is one of the worst companies out there right now, closely tied with Meta.

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IlCaviale -10 points 9 days ago

Google was born from In-Q-Tel. they're literally the CIA. How uninformed is the average internet user to not see that the entire techbro oligopoly is simply the mask dropping? Sometimes I wonder what the koolaid tastes like. To believe that things just happen uncaused, that geopolitics is the weather, and that conspiracies are better explained by emergent behavior. That it's never malice, just stupidity. That the top 1% is not on the far end of the bell curve, that they're not merely pretending to be retarded. You know it's like looking at the top chess players and concluding that it's not skill (or anal beads), but dumb luck.

In other words the thing I'm mocking (and being downvoted for) is the notion that Google can be split up when it acts as an extension of the government. It's like asking a person to cut off their own arm. Of course they won't.

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Clent 5 points 9 days ago

They don't have to be super intelligent to do what you describe. Intelligence os relative, when you make these observations, seeing super intelligence is telling on yourself.

Embrass it but don't pretend it's your super power.

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