If Finland prohibits them from continuing construction, they don’t get the data center they want, and they have to start over somewhere else.
See the previous comments for why it's a mostly fake story designed to make low-information people angry.
This. This would be real pain for them in terms of latency to launch.
Yes, Finland can also tighten the rules on future permits etc. But after all this, Google will simply pay a fine and look for another country/forest to exploit. It will also not bring back the 250K trees they destroyed.