>Request for source on illegality [...] I don't see where it says anyone is refuting that

the regulators are the ones refuting google's claims. the headline opens with: "Finland's regulator says the environmental review came too late"

and the second paragraph of the linked article says:

"Google was apparently so eager to build its new data center infrastructure in Finland that it began bulldozing large swaths of forest __before the required environmental review of the full plan was complete__."

typically, doing something before the environmental review gives you a notice to proceed is illegal.

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arandomhuman 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Stop, leave the trillion dollar mega corporation alone!

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icantevenhold 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Typically one has to wait for courts to decide whether something is illegal or not.

If it was illegal them I’m sure the state prosecutors will take care of it.

I dislike Google as much as the next guy but this seems like a minor issue in a list of huge problems

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john_strinlai 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>Typically one has to wait for courts to decide whether something is illegal or not.

in every country i am familiar with, disobeying an order from a regulator is already illegal.

	▲	icantevenhold 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Should be an easy case then! If it’s illegal fine them billions for all i care

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buzer 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> If it was illegal them I’m sure the state prosecutors will take care of it.

In Finland prosecutors are not involved in most of the illegal things, they are only involved in criminal matters (and in some cases civil compensation claims which are linked to criminal case). Various regulators/authorities are the ones who enforce civil side.

In many cases the penalties that law allows those to authorities to issue are limited to ordering to stop doing that illegal thing, reprimands and conditional fines ("if you don't stop you need to pay fine"). Straight up fines tend to be more uncommon (unless individual is doing it, then fines tend to be very common). Targets of these can then file appeal in administrative court and usually behavior is allowed to continue while case is appealed (see e.g. various GDPR/ePD cases).

	▲	icantevenhold 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yea I’m obviously not familiar with the details but whoever is in charge of enforcing the laws should do it. If the law is not sufficiently protecting Finnish interests here it should be changed.