Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project

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• Manjushri@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is what happens when corporate crimes are punished with just slap-on-the-wrist fines that can be written off as a cost of doing business. Why should they obey the law? There is no downside to breaking it.

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• JandalsAweigh@lemmy.nz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They should be made to forfeit the land and replant every single tree they felled.

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• TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields

  Thanks for the context. As someone who lives in the US, I wouldn’t have been able to put that to scale otherwise.

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  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    500 football fields does not convey the size properly at all.

    Why they choose stupid things like that or buses or whatever is beyond me.

    1.15 square milea or ~ 3 square kilometers is much more easily perceived.

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