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Google had secured access to Finland’s northern grid, but environmental rules are blocking site work at two facilities in its €13 billion data center expansion.
Finland told Google to halt major site work at two planned data centers after regulators found that substantial land clearing and other site preparation had occurred before the required environmental impact assessments were completed.
For data center operators, Google’s experience shows that securing power and grid capacity does not guarantee that construction can proceed. Google had access to significant grid capacity in northern Finland through the Finnish grid operator Fingrid, but the project encountered another constraint when site preparation crossed into permanent environmental alteration.
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