And an existential one for humanity

We didn't mean to be evil. Soooorrryyy

Clippy 2.0

Feed 'em to the wolves.

They didn't.

Short answer: Money

Long answer: Currency

Whoever these nameleless data center tyrants are, they're of the eminent domain caliber. They don't need permits for anything.

I mean, jail is one option, but the hungry wolves are right there.

What do you mean? Jail is for criminals - you know, the people who get in the way of the wealthy trying to get more wealth.

People should be covered in meat juice and sent into the forest mud expanse for this

Carcass means already dead, right? I feel like all involved decision makers should be felled like trees. And I don’t mean “one cut”. If you've seen how trees are felled, you know what I mean.

Lumberjacks harvest the wood. This is just going to rot in a pile or end up in a landfill.

It really depends on size of the team and equipment. Three guys with a hand saw, the trees will probably grow back as fast as they clear them. Three hundred guys each running an industrial feller, that's done by lunch and they've got time for some kebabs (maybe an exaggeration, but still).

If they snuck in a large enough team and clearcut, it's very plausible they could do that in a week or two without someone visiting and noticing.

And their own government that sold Google the land

I feel like the fact the 250,000 trees were illegally cleared should be in the article title.

https://abcnews.com/International/venice-canals-clear-fish-coronavirus-halts-tourism-city/story?id=69662690

There's a lot of evidence that the earth could recover from some of what we've wrought pretty quickly. It seems like no help is coming, but maybe there are a lot of us out here who have been forced to wake up to the notion that ecoterrorism is the best course of action.

The AI calamity that will kill off humanity (or at least our current way of life) is the massively increased output of greenhouse gases on account of the huge AI datacenter power usage, mostly fueled by fossil fuel generators.

This will speed up climate change and the mass extinction event already occuring. For lots of living species on this planet it is already too late. And instead of doing everything in our power to counter that, we are actively piling on top of the causes for it. All for nothing but greed.