Google cut 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data centre, and weren't very concerned about it:
Google’s Finland country manager, Antti Järvinen, apologized for the forest clearings, but claimed the company had acted “on the best understanding we had of the legislation at the time.”
Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works on accessibility standards for the Dutch government (views his own) and is in the W3C's AB. Previously, he worked for Mozilla, W3C/WAI, national and local governments, Sanoma Learning and others as a freelancer. Hidde is a public speaker (all 99 talks). In his free time, he works on a coffee table book covering the video conferencing apps of our decade.