I don't know about Finland as well as I know about Sweden, but here in Sweden, we don't really do outright bribes.

They are far too messy...

Instead, what happens is that a government official approves Company A for a large contract even though Company B had a batter and cheaper option. The reason is stated as somethibg nebulous and hard to disprove.

Then, a year or two later, the same government official resigns from office, and Company A quickly hires them as a coordination consultant between the company and the government.

And since the person has highly specific knowledge about not only the government, but the contract as well as contacts in the government, the company has a reason to offer a very high compenstation for the consultancy without it looking suspicious.

The person is retained by the company untill the "debt" is paid and the person leaves the company.

No bribe is paid, just a fair compensation to a consultant with highly relevant skills.

Yeah no, it does not work directly like that, around here. If they thought they can just buy their way quickly out of this... Now that they got caught, Google just brought upon itself a good round of the Nordic bureaucracy hell. And if they managed to piss of the locals, the complaints alone can delay the whole thing easily for years, lmao.

They don't even know. Literally. They're just betting demand will appear

One way to understand this process in a reductive but not altogether that off the mark way is to frame fascism as a weaponization of measurement, artificial metrics, beaucracy, dissection and surveillance. Without paperwork and endless obsessive attempts to draw distinctions between things that do not exist it really isn't true fascism.

In this sense Microsoft's use of Azure to enable the surveillance, targetting, and atomization of Palestinian society for Israel's Genocide and all of the pointless data centers meant to hoard information about people being built in areas without enough water already for humans are two sides of the same irrational coin.

This is just mostly for training and running LLMs. Not a lot of storage on these machines, they're super high memory bandwidth parallel compute monsters.

LLM till they fail then serveilance

After climate change, if we survive it, the next crysis will be an information crysis, because the data humanity collects doubles every year, we'll literally run out of planet materials to store informations (pen, paper, hard disks, whatever)

Tracking and surveillance for the unavoidable global climate collapse. The rich know that there will be unrest around the globe, this is how they control us.

Probably .01% of the surveillance centers power are used for summarizing Karen's email. The rest is for data points on every single thing they can get on you. Same reason they want flock. People and car tracking, impossible to evade.

We are actively living in a surveillance state like north Korea but somehow totally ignoring it.

Would anyone dare go on their social media profile and post that a certain political leader needs to be dissapeared? I won't even say things like that in a phone call! Theyre always listening and tracking you. How do they take people down? Generate images of csam using grok (thats why it was trained with it) and somehow it appears on your device or any of your cloud services along with a website history of all the bad stuff you definitely did. No one will bat an eye and youll be in prison for life.

Or also very easy, fake medical records of depression and medication, and say they offed themselves off a bridge or with a shotgun to the back of the head "such a shame, I had no idea they were depressed".

Its rediculously easy to get rid of anyone who doesnt lick dear leaders boots. I'd be willing to bet this is all happening right now and we have no idea. Theyve certainly been imprisoning completely legal immigrants in detention centers with 0 repurcussions.

Are you suggesting that the guillotines in the French Revolution were convinced of the god given power and right of the French nobility to rule and were motivated by a fear of that power not a belief that it is an illusion?

Sorry I am just pissed off at Bernie Sanders and his staff right now for being so gullible lol.

VPN + third party apps are the solution

I'm sure if anyone else builds without the proper permission they have the authority to bring that to a halt. Even if they had no legal basis to stop the construction, they could deny them some other permission, like not giving them a high speed internet connection or limiting water access. No way something like this goes ahead without full cooperation from the government.

I think you don't know Finland very well. Ask the Russians.

It is not about the forest it is about Google spitting on Finnish law, acting as it is above the law. That needs to have consequences, preferably criminal charges, rather than just fines. Otherwise they are above the law.

I would have pulled the plug then exiled all things Google from the country until they paid a fine of double value to the land they desecrated.

100mx100m? Seems easier than one chain x one furlong.