Earlier in October, Finnish authorities ordered Google’s affiliate data center developer
Tuike Finland Oy to immediately suspend the illegal cuttingof some 1,300 acres of forest.

The tech giant was given a week to draft a report explaining its actions,
which soon became a flashpoint for Europe’s growing outrage over the data center boom.

New reporting by the Guardian shed fresh light on the impacts of Google’s deforestation.

After the 1,300 acres of pristine boreal forests were reduced to tracts of mud and stumps,
fauna which once called the woods home has been forced to vacate.

In the felling-site near the Finnish village of Otanmäki,
the ensuing loss of prey has forced packs of wolves to search for food elsewhere:
-- nearby villages.

“We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest,” 53-year-old Otanmäki resident Anni Ranta told the Guardian.
“They fled.”

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