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#Google will build new DCs near Oulu, #Finland, and bought 1400 hectares of forest from the state. Both locations are near a 400 kV power transmission line, judging from openinframap.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20128014
The state should rent this land to Google, not sell it. The value of this land for Google is determined by the amount of public investment around it. Now every further public investment will be an untaxed gift to Google.
(Yes I'm an hypocrite. My apartment building owns its own land plot.)
@nemobis made me search for Finland land value tax (my naive undersanding outcome should approximate state renting/being landlord for all land?) not expecting anything apart from random advocacy but apparently exists or did in some small form https://fig.net/resources/proceedings/fig_proceedings/fig2017/papers/ts06i/TS06I_peltola_8666.pdf though not in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax#Implementation
@mlinksva I think the main property taxes on real estate in Finland are the transfer tax (recently reduced) https://www.vero.fi/en/individuals/property/transfer-tax/ and inheritance taxes (recently changed to be spread out over very long periods). There's also a property tax but it's municipal, usually negligible. https://www.vero.fi/en/individuals/property/real-estate-tax/
In Helsinki, where land is very expensive, the real property tax is that you pay rent to the city for the land under your building. ~400 M€ in rentals vs. 300 in tax. https://www.hel.fi/en/news/city-of-helsinki-financial-statements-2022-better-than-budgeted-due-to-increased-tax-revenue