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A report on Google-linked data-centre development in Finland describes forest clearance followed by wolves turning up in nearby villages. The story gives a local, tangible angle to the growing argument over what the AI infrastructure boom costs beyond electricity and land.

Futurism says Finnish authorities ordered work halted after illegal cutting, and that residents told the Guardian the loss of wildlife had brought wolves closer to their homes. Those details are reported claims, not a finding that every data centre causes the same harm. Data centres can sound abstract until the effects reach the edge of someone’s village.

Discuss: Should developers have to show the environmental costs of AI infrastructure before projects get approval, or should local impacts be judged case by case?

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