Wolves enter Finnish villages after Google clears 1300 acres for AI data centers

10 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by entryleveljobsc

8 Comments

Gravityloss

7 hours 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.

stonogo

3 hours 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.

cyanydeez

3 hours ago

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

context for you today, context for you, tomorrow.

user

7 hours ago

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Fricken

7 hours 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

6 hours 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%.

donkey_brains

3 hours ago

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