Yandex data center in Finland loses power due to contract termination

Re:Yandex data center in Finland loses power due to contract... by wongarsu on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @06:16AM (#31258554)

Napoleon died in 1821. For French ambitions on German territory alone there was the Rhine crisis of 1840 [1], the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 [2], followed by French Revanchism [3] over the loss of Alsace-Lorraine, which they regained in WWI with the Treaty of Versailles. In 1923 there was the Occupation of the Ruhr [4]. Then in the aftermath of WWII France tried to take the Saar Protectorate, but with the EU slowly taking shape with the formation of the ECSC and the EEC instead a referendum happened and the territory went back to Germany.

Maybe notions of owning all of Europe ceased with Napoleon, but France trying to extend its borders Eastwards was happening right until the EU took shape.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine_crisis

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revanchism

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Ruhr

5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar_Protectorate

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Re:Yandex data center in Finland loses power due to contract... by martin_a on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @06:40AM (#31258683)

> but France trying to extend its borders Eastwards was happening right until the EU took shape.

Same could be said for Germany and West expansions. Thankfully a thing of the past right now.

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Re:Yandex data center in Finland loses power due to contract... by thinkindie on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @11:15AM (#31261653)

We are talking about a couple of regions that historically have been through both ruling. Napoleon occupied or subjugated entire countries by installing puppet regimes.

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