谷歌在芬兰北部穆霍斯（Muhos）计划建设的数据中心选址处清除了大约25万棵树木，而当时尚未完成必需的环境评估。《卫报》的米兰达·布莱恩特（Miranda Bryant）从现场作了这篇报道。这片清理区域占地330公顷，距离奥卢约基河（Oulujoki）约400米。谷歌还移除了表层土壤。
Google cleared an estimated 250,000 trees at its planned data centre site in Muhos, northern Finland, before finishing the required environmental assessment. Miranda Bryant reported this for the Guardian from the site. The clearing covers 330 hectares, about 400 metres from the Oulujoki river. Google removed the topsoil too.
玛丽·安纳拉（Mari Annala）是芬兰自然保护协会（SLL）的生态学家。她估计，谷歌在其位于卡亚尼（Kajaani）附近的第二个选址奥坦麦基（Otanmäki）多砍伐了约15万棵树。她对《卫报》表示，由于砍伐不合法，这些木材无法出售给加工厂。
Mari Annala is an ecologist with the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation (SLL). She estimates that Google felled about 150,000 more trees at its second site, in Otanmäki near Kajaani. Because the felling was not lawful, she told the Guardian, the wood cannot be sold to processing plants.
芬兰许可与监督管理局（LVV）于10月6日下令谷歌停工。谷歌的芬兰子公司图伊凯芬兰（Tuike Finland）必须在10月23日之前暂停改变这两个选址土地的工作。停工令将一直持续到评估完成。这两个选址是谷歌9月宣布的130亿欧元芬兰投资的一部分。
Finland’s Licensing and Supervision Authority (LVV) ordered Google to stop on 6 October. Google’s Finnish subsidiary, Tuike Finland, had until 23 October to halt work that alters the land at both sites. The halt applies until the assessments are complete. The two sites are part of Google’s €13bn Finnish investment, announced in September.
谷歌表示其已经停工。谷歌表示，在10月6日收到芬兰许可与监督管理局的信函后，已停止在穆霍斯和卡亚尼的准备工作。它已向该机构发送了对此予以确认的正式答复。
Google says it has stopped Google said it stopped preparatory work at Muhos and Kajaani after receiving LVV’s letters on 6 October. It has sent the authority a formal response confirming this.
谷歌发言人对《卫报》表示：“我们将完全遵守芬兰许可与监督管理局在这件事上的要求。”谷歌告诉《卫报》，该公司计划在穆霍斯的130公顷土地上重新植树。环保人士表示，这对于弥补砍伐来说杯水车薪。
“We will fully comply with LVV’s requests in this matter.”Google spokesperson, to the Guardian Google plans to plant trees across 130 hectares at Muhos, it told the Guardian. Conservationists say that is too little to make up for the felling.
谷歌芬兰国家经理安蒂·耶尔维宁（Antti Järvinen）在10月13日接受芬兰广播公司（Yle）采访时进行了道歉。
Antti Järvinen, Google’s country manager for Finland, apologised in an interview with Yle on 13 October.
谷歌芬兰公司的安蒂·耶尔维宁表示：“对于我们陷入这种境地，我感到非常抱歉。我想为此道歉。”他说，谷歌当时的行事依据是其对当时立法的最佳理解。
“I am extremely sorry that we are in this situation. I want to apologise for that.”Antti Järvinen, Google Finland He said Google had acted on the best understanding it had of the legislation at the time.
调查部门的发现 芬兰北芬兰地区国家行政管理局（LVV）针对穆霍斯（Muhos）下达的行政命令列出了双方的说法。芬兰图伊克公司（Tuike Finland）于9月25日向该局表示，该工程无需许可证。该公司援引了芬兰《建筑法》中的一项条款，该条款允许在施工开始前进行砍伐和挖掘。该公司还表示，此前已提交了森林使用通告。
What the authority found The LVV order for Muhos sets out both sides. Tuike Finland told the authority on 25 September that the work needed no permit. It cited a clause in Finland’s building law that allows felling and digging before construction starts. It also said it had filed a forest-use notice in advance.
穆霍斯市镇向北芬兰地区国家行政管理局表示，其未该项目颁发过任何许可证。北芬兰地区国家行政管理局早在5月份就已告知该市镇，在评估完成之前不得颁发任何许可证。随后该市镇于6月致信谷歌（Google），称根据《建筑法》进行前期准备工作是可能的。
The Muhos municipality told LVV it had granted no permits for the project. LVV had already told the municipality in May not to grant any permit before the assessment was complete. The municipality then wrote to Google in June that preparatory work under the building law was possible.
北芬兰地区国家行政管理局拒绝接受这种解读。其在信中写道，无论市镇就建筑许可证如何表态，遵守评估法的义务依然适用。谷歌计划在面积达571公顷的穆霍斯地块上建设九栋数据中心大楼。如果谷歌不予配合，北芬兰地区国家行政管理局可以下令停工，并以罚款作为该命令的后盾。
LVV rejected that reading. The duty to follow the assessment law still applies, it wrote, whatever the municipality says about building permits. Google plans nine data centre buildings on the 571-hectare Muhos site. If Google does not comply, LVV can order the work stopped and back the order with a fine.
据芬兰国家广播公司（Yle）报道，援引《晚报》（Iltalehti）的消息，警方也已对穆霍斯的工程展开初步调查。一名私人在10月2日提交了立案申请。
Police have also opened a preliminary inquiry into the work at Muhos, Yle reported, citing Iltalehti. A private individual filed the request on 2 October.
狼群与请愿书 奥坦马基（Otanmäki）的居民向《卫报》表示，清理工作已将野生动物驱赶出森林。
Wolves and a petition Residents in Otanmäki told the Guardian the clearing had driven wildlife out of the forest.
“我们有狼跑进了村子，因为所有的野生动物都搬出了森林。”奥坦马基居民安妮·兰塔（Anni Ranta）对《卫报》说。芬兰自然保护协会（SLL）董事会主席汉娜·哈尔梅恩帕（Hanna Halmeenpää）表示，她从未听说过有公司在芬兰做出过类似的事情。
“We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest.”Anni Ranta, Otanmäki resident, to the Guardian Hanna Halmeenpää, who chairs SLL’s board, said she had never heard of a company doing anything like this in Finland.
“他们买下了广袤的土地，然后就开始砍伐，就这么干了。这纯粹是傲慢，太惊人了。”芬兰自然保护协会的汉娜·哈尔梅恩帕说。截至《卫报》报道时，已有超过9.3万人签署了一项公民倡议。该倡议呼吁制定更严格的数据中心规则，并征收费用以补偿当地社区。一天后，《财富》（Fortune）杂志将这一数字统计为超过9.6万人。据《卫报》报道，芬兰总理佩特里·奥尔波（Petteri Orpo）将发生在穆霍斯的事情称为“当头一棒”。
“They bought the vast land area and they just started to cut it, just like that. It’s pure arrogance and it’s amazing.”Hanna Halmeenpää, SLL More than 93,000 people had signed a citizens’ initiative by the time of the Guardian’s report. It calls for tighter data centre rules and a fee to compensate local communities. A day later, Fortune put the count at more than 96,000. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has called what happened in Muhos a “cold shower,” according to the Guardian.
据《卫报》报道，芬兰有145个处于不同规划阶段的数据中心，其中包括本月宣布的位于耶姆赛（Jämsä）的耗资100亿欧元的园区。该报援引凉爽的气候、稳定性和闲置土地作为吸引力所在。TNW在8月份报道称，欧洲更多的新数据中心容量正在转向其传统枢纽之外的地区。
Finland has 145 data centres at various stages of planning, the Guardian reported, including a €10bn campus at Jämsä announced this month. The paper cites the cool climate, stability and spare land as the draw. More of Europe’s new data centre capacity is going outside its traditional hubs, TNW reported in August.
芬兰环境部总司长维利-马蒂·乌斯基（Veli-Matti Uski）对《卫报》表示，如果需要，政府准备提议修改法律。
Veli-Matti Uski, director general of the environment ministry, told the Guardian the government is ready to propose changes to the law if needed.