Forest Majeure: Finland Orders Google To Halt Work At Two Data Centers Less Than A Month After €13BN Splash

The data center delay contagion has officially gone global.

Just hours after we laid out how Oracle's 1.3GW Wisconsin campus became the next domino to slip after the indefinite delay of the company's New Mexico-based, Project Jupiter, and on the same day Google locked up 3.6GW of Constellation's nuclear output in PJM, Finland's Supervisory Agency (LVV) ordered a halt to construction work at two planned Google data centers, in Muhos and Kajaani, after more than 300 hectares of forest were cleared without a mandatory environmental impact assessment. The sites are part of the €13 billion ($15 billion) investment Google announced less than a month ago, which it billed as its largest single investment in Europe.

For those keeping count, that's two of Oracle's flagship Stargate campuses, SoftBank's SB Energy, a statewide halt in Texas, PJM's emergency power auction and now Google's biggest European project, all in the span of about three weeks. Which is why, having flagged the first Oracle data center delays back