Clear News | Thursday 25.6.2026
Data centers. Social services buildings. Peony park. Weather forecast.
Building data centers
First, news about the construction of data centers.
Data centers now employ many Finns.
Approximately 10,000 employees build data centers, more than half of whom are Finnish.
Brothers Antti and Ville Finér are building a parking lot for a data center in Kouvola.
Antti Finér says that the brothers’ company carries out earthmoving work at nine data center construction sites.
Ville Finer says that the company has grown fivefold.
Data centers now employ many Finns.
They also employ design firms.
Jari Innanen, director of the design office Granlund, says that data centers are already the biggest design target.
Demand is also growing rapidly.
Social services buildings
Now news about old social services buildings.
This is a former service house in Iltarusko Pylkönmäki.
It is empty because the welfare district terminated the lease.
There are now many empty social welfare buildings in Finland.
The reason is savings in welfare areas.
There are over a hundred empty social and health care buildings. That is about 25 percent of all buildings that previously housed social and health services.
As the number of social welfare buildings decreases, many jobs will also decrease.
For example, fewer property managers and security guards are needed than before.
When jobs decrease, people move out of the municipality, and the municipality’s tax revenue decreases.
There are now many empty social welfare buildings in Finland.
Municipalities are trying to sell them, but it is difficult to find buyers.
Kotka Peony Park
Finally, news from Kotka.
The Kotka Peony Park delights many people in the summer.
The Peony Park has about 200 peony species and a total of about 800 peonies.
The peony park was founded 6 years ago.
The idea for a peony park was invented by Jyrki Karppinen from Kotka.
He says that such a peony park is rare in all of Europe.
The Kotka Peony Park delights many people in the summer.
The park has been visited by guests from, for example, the USA, China and Japan.
Friday weather
Still a weather forecast.
There will be showers in the east and north on Friday.
In the south and west it is dry, meaning it doesn’t rain. The sun also shines occasionally.
The temperature is about 15 degrees in the north and about 20 degrees in the south.