Behind a wire fence lies a vast gaping(豁开的；巨大的) wound of earth. Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland.(几个月前谷歌到来之前，芬兰北部乡村穆霍斯镇附近330公顷的森林里估计生长着25万棵树。) Now they are all gone.
铁丝网围栏后面，是一片巨大的、豁开的土地伤口。几个月前谷歌到来之前，芬兰北部乡村穆霍斯镇附近330公顷（815英亩）的森林里，估计生长着25万棵树。如今它们全都不见了。
After the tech company illegally stripped the entire area to build a datacentre – taking even the top soil with it – all that remains is a vast expanse of mud indented with the trail marks of machinery, puddles and mounds of earth, roots and branches.(这家科技公司为建数据中心非法剥光了整片土地——连表层土壤都一并挖走——如今只剩下一大片泥泞，上面布满机械履带印、水坑以及土堆、树根和树枝。) Residents say that brown water flowing off the site is going into a stream that feeds(汇入；注入) the Oulujoki River.
这家科技公司为建数据中心非法剥光了整片土地——连表层土壤都一并挖走——如今只剩下一大片泥泞，上面布满机械履带印、水坑以及土堆、树根和树枝。居民说，从工地流出的褐色水正流入一条汇入奥卢约基河的溪流。
“It doesn’t end. It goes on and on(持续不断；没完没了),” says Mari Annala, an ecologist(生态学家) from the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation (SLL), looking at drone footage(视频片段) of the former forest from the perimeter(边缘；周边).
“没有尽头。一直延伸下去，”芬兰自然保护协会（SLL）的生态学家玛丽·安纳拉站在边缘看着 former forest 的无人机画面说道。