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Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project: It's "gross incompetence," or "gross disregard" for the law. Or both.
futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-illegally-killing-forest-data-center
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
When the fines aren’t big enough, they’re just the cost of doing business.
Penalties for fuckery like this should be at GDPR levels, meaning a percentage of global turnover of the parent company.
Replying to @lepinkainen@lemmy.world
that’s the entire point of fines, to internalize external costs.
If it’s still profitable after full enforcement of fines then either the fines were not correctly set or the buisness model is a net positive.