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Reuters
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
Finland says two Russian military aircraft suspected of violating its airspace
HELSINKI, May 23 (Reuters) - Two Russian military aircraft are suspected of having violated Finnish airspace on Friday, Finland's defence ministry said in a statement. The incident occurred off the coast of Porvoo in southern Finland, the ministry added. "We take the suspected territorial violation seriously and an investigation is ongoing," Minister of Defence Antti Hakkanen said in the statement. The Finnish Border Guard is investigating the incident and will provide more detailed information at a later time, he added.
Globe and Mail
20-05-2025
- Globe and Mail
Three students injured in attack at school in southern Finland; suspect apprehended
Police vehicles outside the Vahajarvi School, in Pirkkala, Finland, on May 20. Mika Kylmäniemi / APOLLO PHOTO/Reuters Three pupils were injured in an attack at a school in southern Finland on Tuesday and a fellow student suspected of carrying out the assault has been apprehended, police said. The attacker used a bladed weapon, police said in a statement, adding that the injuries were not believed to be life-threatening. Police said they were investigating written material believed to have been published by the suspect prior to the incident, but did not elaborate on the content. They did not state the age of the victims but said their parents had been informed. Pupils at the Vahajarvi school in Pirkkala, some 180 kilometres (110 miles) north of Helsinki, range from pre-school age to ninth grade, according to its website.
Bloomberg
14-05-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
How Finland Is Harvesting Waste Heat From Data Centers
When Finnish engineer Ari Kurvi takes a hot shower or turns up the thermostat in his apartment, he's tapping into waste heat generated by a 75-megawatt data center 5 kilometers away. As its computer servers churn through terabytes of digital information to support video calls, car navigation systems and web searches, an elaborate system of pipes and pumps harvests the cast-off energy and feeds it to homes in the town of Mantsala in southern Finland. Since it began operation about a decade ago, the data center has provided heat for the town. Last year, it heated the equivalent of 2,500 homes, about two-thirds of Mantsala's needs, cutting energy costs for residents and helping to blunt the environmental downsides associated with power-hungry computing infrastructure. Some of the world's biggest tech companies are now embracing heat recovery from data centers in an effort to become more sustainable.
