alt Hacker NewsI think this is a case of a misleading headline. Do the 250K trees even enter into this:
> Police said that, based on current information, there have been irregularities and shortcomings in drainage and water management at the data centre project's worksite
250K trees sounds like a lot, but Finland has like 20B trees, so it would take 3 hours for Finland to grow this back
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delichon • today at 3:51 PM
Growing stock volume: ~2.66B m^3
Annual volume increment: 103M m^3
Approximate number of trees: 20B
Implied average tree volume: ~0.1275 m^3
Volume of 250K trees: 250K x 0.1275 m^3 ~ 32K m^3
Time for remaining trees to grow that volume back: 32K m^3 / 103M m^3/year ~ 0.00031 years ~ 2.7 hours whatevaa • today at 3:35 PM
9 woman can't bring baby in a month. That 3 hour estimate makes no sense.
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sampo • today at 4:06 PM
> 250K trees sounds like a lot
In this case, it's 3.3 sq-km (or 1.3 sq-miles) of forest.
gwjeglkefnf3 • today at 3:41 PM
What does the total number of trees in Finland have to do with the amount of time it would take to grow 250K tree back?
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> 250K trees sounds like a lot, but Finland has like 20B trees, so it would take 3 hours for Finland to grow this back
That's not how math.....or trees.....work.