芬兰警方已对位于该国北部穆霍斯的谷歌数据中心工地展开刑事调查。奥卢警局正在调查该工地涉嫌造成的环境破坏，该工地由谷歌当地子公司 Tuike Finland 运营。
Finnish police have opened a criminal investigation into Google’s data centre site in Muhos, in the north of the country. The Oulu Police Department is investigating suspected environmental damage at the site, which Google’s local subsidiary, Tuike Finland, runs.
警方于周四宣布启动调查。据 Yle 新闻报道，调查是应芬兰监管机构的要求开始的。警局已收到五份要求调查穆霍斯工地的请求，将在同一调查中一并处理。警方表示，随着工作推进，可能会增加其他指控。
The police announced the investigation on Thursday. It began at the request of the Finnish Supervisory Agency, Yle News reported. The department has received five requests to investigate the Muhos site. It will handle all five in the same probe. Police may add other charges as the work goes on, they said.
警局称，初步信息指向“Tuike Finland Oy 数据中心项目建设工地在排水和水资源管理方面存在模糊之处和缺陷”，此为法新社翻译。
Preliminary information points to “ambiguities and deficiencies in drainage and water management at the construction site of Tuike Finland Oy’s data centre project”, the department said, in Agence France-Presse’s translation.
警方预计调查将耗时较长，目标在 2027 年完成。据法新社报道，他们计划在 12 月公布更多信息。
Police expect the investigation to take a long time and aim to finish it in 2027. They plan to share more information in December, Agence France-Presse reported.
工程自 10 月起停工 穆霍斯工地是谷歌宣布的 130 亿欧元芬兰投资计划的一部分，该计划于 9 月公布。在完成所需的环境评估之前，Tuike Finland 已在该地清理了约 330 公顷森林。《卫报》估算损失约 25 万棵树。
Work stopped since October The Muhos site is part of Google’s €13bn Finnish investment, announced in September. Tuike Finland cleared about 330 hectares of forest there before finishing the required environmental assessment. The Guardian put the loss at an estimated 250,000 trees.
监管机构责令该公司停止穆霍斯和第二工地卡亚尼-奥坦麦基的施工。两地的评估均未完成。据 Yle 报道，该公司于 10 月 14 日确认已暂停两个工地的准备工作。
The supervisory agency ordered the company to halt work at Muhos and at a second site, Kajaani-Otanmäki. The assessments for both were unfinished. The company confirmed on 14 October that it had suspended preparatory work at both sites, Yle reported.
监管机构还认定 Tuike Finland 的水资源方案薄弱，未能证明公司能够控制对水体的影响。监管机构已给该公司截至 11 月 5 日的期限提交详细方案。据 Yle 报道，方案必须涵盖暴雨、融雪以及当地酸性黑色页岩土壤的情况。如果公司不行动，监管机构可能采取正式执法措施，包括处以强制罚款。
The agency also found Tuike Finland’s water plans too weak. They did not show the company could control the effects on water. The agency has given the company until 5 November to submit a detailed plan. The plan has to cover heavy rain, snowmelt and the acidic black shale soils in the area, according to Yle. If the company does not act, the agency may move to formal enforcement, including a conditional fine.
谷歌的立场 谷歌在给芬兰广播公司（Yle）记者赫娜·迈基卡利奥（Henna Mäkikallio）的电子邮件回复中表示，该公司正在配合调查。
Google’s position Google said it is cooperating with the investigation, in an emailed reply to Henna Mäkikallio of Yle.
谷歌在TNW的译文中表示：“我们正在积极回应芬兰数据保护监察员办公室（LVV）及其他当局的问题。我们正在配合奥卢警方于10月29日宣布的调查，并将继续致力于确保我们的数据中心严格按照要求运营。”
“We are actively responding to questions from LVV and other authorities. We are cooperating in the investigation that Oulu police announced on 29 October, and we will continue to focus on ensuring that our sites operate in line with requirements,” Google said, in TNW’s translation.
安蒂·耶尔维宁（Antti Järvinen）负责谷歌在芬兰的业务。他在10月13日接受芬兰广播公司采访时，就森林砍伐一事进行了道歉。他表示，谷歌当时的行事依据是其对当时立法的最佳理解。
Antti Järvinen runs Google in Finland. He apologised for the forest clearances in an interview with Yle on 13 October. He said Google had acted on the best understanding it had of the legislation at the time.