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how did they get permits to do this? not taking away from what they did, but pointing out that there's a politician or two that might also share the blame
They didn't.
The government sold them the land, it's not like they thought Google was going to turn it in to a nature preserve. They knew exactly what Google was planning on doing with it, and it didn't involve keeping the trees.
To be fair, on paper...
The odds of them completely ignoring step 2 are honestly pretty slim. Building permits are still necessary even if you're planning on ignoring things like the environmental stuff.
how dare you bring facts to this emotional rollercoaster!
I mean sure, but they still didn't get proper authorization, likely because it comes with environmental assessments, and interventions which could very well include wolf relocation.
You'd have to relocate the entire ecosystem. the wolves were there because the food was there. the food was there because the trees where there. If you relocate the wolves to where their food isn't, you're just starving a bunch of wolves in a different location.
That's why there's a lot of research and thought put into where wolves (or any other predator) are released. Often it's a location where they lived historically but were hunted out. The better solution of course would be to tell Google to shove their data centers, especially with their lawless unaccountable behavior.
Short answer: Money
Long answer: Currency
longer answer: corruption
Whoever these nameleless data center tyrants are, they're of the eminent domain caliber. They don't need permits for anything.