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Finland orders Google to halt work at two data centre sites pending review

Finland's Permit and Supervision Agency (LVV) ordered Google's Tuike Finland unit to halt site works at its Muhos and Kajaani-Otanmaki data centre plots, pending an environmental impact assessment. Work must stop by 23 October, pausing part of its EUR 13 billion plan.

Reported AI-drafted PPC Land, 6 October 2026

What it does not test. It does not establish that Google's wider EUR 13 billion Finland programme, covering the Hamina and Vaala sites, is delayed or cancelled.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. Finnish regulator pauses two Google sites under existing environmental law; no ownership/law change. European Sovereignty Index

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

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