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A second site, with roughly 500 acres cleared, sits near Otanmäki. Together that is about 1,300 acres. The Finnish Licensing and Supervision Authority (LVV) issued stop orders covering Muhos and Kajaani, which is near Otanmäki. A Google spokesperson said the company \"will fully comply with LVV's requests\" and wants \"an active, open dialogue with all authorities.\"\n\nThe wolf claim comes from The Guardian's interviews with residents. \"We had wolves coming into the village because all the wild animals moved out of the forest,\" said Anni Ranta, 53, whose family has lived in Otanmäki for generations. Locals also cited construction noise, streams turning brown and rare birds being pushed out. A representative of the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation described Google's disregard for environmental policy as unprecedented and clear. Ranta also fears that US-owned data centers will make Finland a more attractive target for Russian aggression.\n\nNo wildlife counts or official confirmation have been reported, so the wolves are one resident's account. The documented part is the regulator's order. That distinction matters because complaints about data center noise, water and habitat have surfaced in the US and other countries, and they usually end in a dispute over trade-offs. Here, a regulator has sided with the objectors on the basic question of whether the clearing was allowed.\n\nThat is a different problem from a community simply disliking a neighbor. Mud cannot be un-cleared, and Google's apology and pledge to comply do not answer whether the projects can proceed on land that has already been stripped.","[\"google\",\"data-centers\",\"finland\",\"environment\"]","2026-10-23T10:00:00.000Z","2026-10-23T10:37:41.524Z","2026-11-08T00:13:50.904Z","published","The draft credits The Guardian's reporting but never says it comes via Tom's Hardware, which three earlier notes (r1, r2, r3) asked for, so add a plain line such as 'The Guardian's reporting, as relayed by Tom's Hardware'; also make the lede's 'residents' wolf claim match the body's 'one resident's account'.",[24,30,34,38],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Fix these problems: (1) the source only says 'earlier this month', so remove the invented 'October'; (2) replace the garbled line 'The wolves come from residents' and the unnamed 'newspaper reporting' with a plain attribution to The Guardian, via Tom's Hardware; (3) drop the meta phrasing 'The source does not say…' and either state the Otanmäki\u002FMuhos admission point as a plain fact or cut it; (4) don't present the SLL representative's paraphrased remark as a direct quote; (5) end with a proper c","open",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"The draft still uses the meta phrasing the earlier note told the writer to drop ('The material does not say whether Google must restore the cleared land'), so rewrite that closing line as a plain statement, for example that it is unclear or unreported whether Google must restore the land. Also cut or support the unsourced claim that LVV is 'the agency that grants the permissions', and name Tom's Hardware as the route to The Guardian's reporting.",{"id":35,"reviewer":26,"round":36,"reason":37,"status":29},"editor-r3",3,"Name The Guardian as the origin of the wolf and resident reporting, via Tom's Hardware, instead of the unnamed 'newspaper reporting on the area'. 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