Wolves enter Finnish villages after Google clears 1300 acres for AI data centers (tomshardware.com)

17 pointsby entryleveljobsc2 days ago8 comments

xg15 2 days ago

> “We look forward to maintaining an active, open dialogue with all authorities to strengthen our partnership with Finland and local organizations.”

I also like to have active, open conversations with the police after I've borrowed things from the store...

ChrisArchitect 2 days ago

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50194283)

Gravityloss 2 days ago

A wolfpack territory is typically about 1000 square kilometers. The forest cut was 3 square kilometers. So while there might be effects, need to set it in context.

Fricken 2 days ago

Human's territory covers the whole planet. I can get to the far side of it in less than a day. You can wipe out a whole continent, the people there can easily just move to another one.

Gravityloss 2 days ago

I mean if 0.3% of your home was invaded by a cabinet, you could probably still live there. In reality it's a bit more since the 1000 square km involves fields and lakes, so maybe 1%.

cyanydeez 2 days ago

Tommorrows comment: the wolfpacks terrirtory is 997 km, and the force cut was 6 km....

context for you today, context for you, tomorrow.

stonogo 2 days ago

Estimates I've seen from professionals tend to put that number a couple of orders of magnitude lower.

However, I don't think it's a coincidence that Finland's wolf population was in the headlines last year for growing by half.

donkey_brains 2 days ago

Maybe now people will see that decrying the environmental impacts of data centers isn't just "crying wolf"!