A Finnish Paper Town Becomes a Digital Hub

Where the Internet Lives by Google

Jun 28, 202300:18:29Technology

Mikko Green is an operations manager at Google's data center in Hamina, Finland. In 2012, when Mikko applied to work at the facility, he was excited about the prospect of moving back to the country where his mother was b...

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