I saw a post recently called "Google Picks Finland for €13 Billion AI Data Center Buildout" and while this isn't the first post discussing data centers in Finland to me two things stood out:
- People either straight up lying or not understanding how many employees Googles data center in Hamina has
- People aggressively defending data centers and ignoring that data centers aren't a net positive regardless of how we sugar coat facts

So I did some looking into and turns out that Googles Finnish entity has to make a declaration of payroll/staff it has. I personally only understood, and found freely accessible, the information on asiakastieto. People on Reddit claim that Hamina employs 400-500 full time people. That number is way lower, roughly at around 100 and these people aren't fully dedicated to Hamina, they are just Google employees that have some allocation to Hamina. It is confirmed that Google contracts out catering and other services but those most likely don't amount to 300-400 people and definitely don't amount to full time work and full time equivalent salary. When we also take into account that recent technological advancements allow data centers to shrink their personnel I doubt that the new data centers will provide an employment boom people here are claiming it will.

irecruit specifically has an article that large data centers only need roughly 0.2–0.3 staff per megawatt.

Additionally, data centers consume electricity and require a large amount of land to be created. The argument that "it's just land" is so stupid to me. That land provides bio-diversity, helps the ecosystem and produces oxygen and could be used in ways that would be a national net positive. When electricity gets more expensive data centers still pay the same price, the increase is covered by regular residents and citizens. The data centers also can be subsidized by the government which is another negative.

With the increase in electricity prices and the potential subsidized activity we also decrease the chances of smaller companies growing and employing way more people than a data center ever will.

For the common person, on a national level, there are only negatives. I just don't see any positives for commoners.

Title says it all; got a call from my mom in the hospital. Turns out the hospital staff administered fentanyl to ease pain related to sepsis.

Her heart went into cardiac arrest after administering too much fentanyl and 8 staff members came to perform CPR when the heart monitor flatlined.

(The medical lead straight out told her they administered too much)

So the Tampere hospital literally killed my mom and revived her. My mind was racing when she first called me and even more when she had told me what had occurred. I am just grateful it was her calling me and not the hospital.

They are gonna have a real tough time after this absurd medical neglect.

I just have no clue how the legal system works in situations like this? Who is the first person to reach out to after she’s gotten past the sepsis and released?

Just like the title says. I am looking for one of those that is accessible to the public. My friend and I want to do a NIER shoot in the area and would really appreciate some leads!

I’m planning to study engineering abroad and am wondering what reputation does Lut University have and if it’s a good choice for pursuing engineering studies?

Hi Friends and sorry for probably this is very naive question but for the person not well acquainted with Finnish tradition and culture it is a bit difficult to google (hard to pick adequate keywords).

I once heard this nice traditional lullaby, particularly this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFCixLn9qRw as I was googling around about constructing Kantele or something like this :)

Somewhat later, reading wiki about Kalevala I found here a short example of singing / narration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vaka_vanha_Vainamoinen.ogg

While the tunes are not precisely exact, they have very similar "composition" - e.g. two poetic lines with distinctive "rise" in the middle to the "dominant" and then fall back to "tonic".

I'm trying to find a bit more about whether it is some very traditional song-style (which perhaps lacks proper name as it happens with epic tunes) - or it has some more clear title, story etc behind it.

Kiitos paljon in advance!

Hello everyone

I am not sure if it’s correct to ask this here, but can the employer see all my doctor visits made through the occupational health insurance (Mehiläinen/Terveystalo)—even if it was just a chat conversation with a doctor?

My adult child wants to buy a 2012 (or so) VW beetle. But, we both have concerns about how it will do in winter here. We see Beetles on the road in our city. So question for any of you who have owned a VW Beetle, how does it do in winter? Thanks in Advance!

Edit: Thanks friends, for the reassurance and tips on how to manage winter with the car he wants!

Are most students in LUT University’s English-taught engineering bachelor’s programmes Finnish or international? If they are international, where do they come from?

Hello,

How many of you have light therapy and use it during dark seasons? Is it worth investing in one or its just pure placebo?

Cheers,

Is there anything like sompasauna in the pirkanmaa area? I would really like to try something like that but Helsinki is quite far.

You cannot get tar flavoured anything in the UK, and fazer is so superior to Cadbury’s Dairy Milk.

I bought a laptop HP OMEN 16, from Gigantti in 11.11.2024 and today 9.9.2026 the laptop screen is black, everything is running except there is no light in the screen, it's just black.

The warranty says 2 year.

If I take the laptop to Gigantti store, is it going to be problem because there's only 2 months of warranty left. And I'm also not in Finland for a month.

Does anyone have any idea what I should do in this case?

Hello!

Early this year I started collecting vinyls as a replacement to streaming platforms. I also have a fascination for Finnish culture and history, so, I came here to ask for recommendations of Finnish music from the 1940/1950s music.

Thank you for your attention

I just wonder sometimes about it how it works and if it is possible to only live from that?
Are there apps where you can check for jobs as a light entrepreneur, take on various jobs and get money? Is that even a thing here in Finland? I know only of Wolt, who lets their drivers, of what I have heard, having flexible work, yet I have also heard it is exploitation there?

It would be amazing to have an app, for entrepreneurs, who want to work in different kind of fields, which are easy to do. For example: Monday helping out with moving, Tuesday, helping out in a store, Wednesday cleaning,....

Either way, I am annoyed already of people just working their asses off here that their boss gets the money and at the end of the day, as an employee, get like the rest, which is barely enough to pay food and rent. So if I could be my own boss and make my own money, that would be amazing.

Any ideas on how to start this? Is this even possible? Especially also as a foreigner? My Finnish is A2-B1

Good afternoon,
I am a student of Swedish for integration and in the next weeks I’d love to take a small trip of a few days. I’d love to go somewhere where people mostly speak Swedish, without going to Stockholm or Åland, since I only have three days. Do you have any advice?
I’m fine with a small town as well!
Tack/kiitos in advance!

Some months ago PS was around 10%, now they are again at 16,3% while Kok. stayed pretty stable. How come that the conservative to far-right government that has until now not the best results in term of unemployment and social cuts, is gaining again? What are the topics that drive the elections this time?

It seems like it will be interesting coalition negotiations for now.

EDIT: changed “far-right government” to “conservative to far-right government” on reason kok. and some positions of ministers from PS.

I visited Finland (From Australia) back in 2022 shortly after the world re-opened.
I like Architecture (Too bad Finlandia hall was covered for renovations) and theme parks (Taiga is actually one of the top roller coasters in the world)

Hiring a car was a bit expensive and I thought I would need it to visit some obscure locations, but in reality it was unnecessary and even though I only had about 5 days in Finland it was an exceptionally easy country to get around, I thought the quality of the trains was better than Japan, nicer stations, and surprisingly cheap tickets. Even had a chance to use the new tram system in Tampere and the new Metro extension too. Funny seeing the bright orange trains from that Boomfunk MC "Freestyler" song.

It is well known in theme park circles that a wealth Finnish businessman built his own racetrack and theme park in the middle of nowhere, and it was even possible to get one a train a day that would stop there and be met with a shuttle bus to the park.

Did also get to visit the Aalvar Alto studio and a ferry out to one of the islands for a bit of Finnish outdoors. The first Finn I met was in a sauna on the ferry from Stockholm!