Finland: Google Finland

Overview

Google’s main market-facing Finnish company is Google Finland Oy, registered under Finnish Business ID 0907346-8. The company is active and registered as an Osakeyhtiö / Oy, the Finnish form of a limited liability company. Finnish business-register-derived sources list the company’s registration date as 4 November 1992, not 2006. Proff lists the company’s postal address as Arkadiankatu 6, 00100 Helsinki, a visiting address at Kiviharjunlenkki 1, 90220 Oulu, and share capital of €191,000.

Google Finland Oy is a local Google group company performing market-facing, service-maintenance, technical-support and engineering-related functions. Proff lists older auxiliary business names, including Hantro, Hantro Products and Jaiku, reflecting past Google acquisitions and the company’s Oulu engineering footprint.

Google Cloud’s current subprocessor list identifies Google Finland Oy as a Google group subprocessor for Service Maintenance and Technical Support for all Google Cloud Platform services in Finland. The same documentation identifies Tuike Finland Oy, not Google Finland Oy, as the Finnish entity responsible for Data Center Operations.

Google Finland Oy is not the Finnish operator of Google Search, YouTube, Google Ads, Google Cloud or Google’s data-centre infrastructure. Its role is local and service-oriented, while consumer-service, advertising and cloud-contracting relationships are handled through Google’s wider European corporate structure.

Local Google-linked companies

The two entities are legally and financially separate. Google Finland Oy’s financial data do not represent Google’s Hamina data-centre operation. Tuike Finland Oy’s financial data do not represent Google Finland Oy’s market-facing and support activities.

Ownership and group status

Google Finland Oy is a Google group company. Google Cloud’s subprocessor documentation states that the ultimate parent company for listed Google group subprocessors is Google LLC, itself a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. The reviewed public sources confirm Google group status and ultimate parentage, but do not establish the direct shareholder of Google Finland Oy.

Leadership

Registered governance and business leadership are separate. Finnish company-register-derived sources list Frank Gerard Fagan as a board member of Google Finland Oy. Current public sources reviewed for this update did not confirm a current 2024 to 2026 Finnish country manager. Older public references identify Antti Järvinen as maajohtaja / country manager from 2016, but that role attribution is not used as a current leadership claim in this profile.

Consumer, data and cloud-contracting structure

Google Finland Oy is not the primary contracting entity for Finnish users of Google’s consumer services. In the European Economic Area and Switzerland, Google’s Terms of Service identify Google Ireland Limited as the service provider and contracting entity for Google services.

For Google Cloud, Finland falls under Google’s EMEA contracting structure, where Google Cloud EMEA Limited is the contracting entity for EMEA, except France, Italy and Poland, unless otherwise agreed.

Infrastructure

Google Finland Oy is not the operator of Google’s Finnish data-centre infrastructure. Google’s Finnish data-centre presence is centred on Hamina, where Google purchased the former Summa paper mill site and opened its first Hamina data centre in 2011. Google’s official Hamina page lists €3.5bn invested in the region to date and reports 98% carbon-free energy use in Finland in 2023.

In May 2024, Google announced an additional €1bn investment to expand its Finnish data-centre campus in Hamina to support AI-related growth in Europe. Taken together, Google’s official Hamina investment figure and the 2024 expansion announcement indicate at least €4.5bn in Finnish data-centre investment once the 2024 expansion is included.

Latest financial snapshot

FY2024

Asiakastieto and Proff report €34.5m in 2024 revenue, 95 employees, €2.9m in operating profit, an operating margin of 8.3%, and an equity ratio of around 79% for Google Finland Oy. Profinder reports the 2024 net result / tilikauden tulos as €3.3m. The GMFM financial table uses operating profit / liikevoitto as the profit measure for Google Finland Oy, not net result / tilikauden tulos. The 2020 to 2024 revenue and operating-profit series is verified against Finnish business-register-derived financial data published by Asiakastieto and Proff. The 2019 row is retained from the existing GMFM historical series and remains a legacy row until reconciled against the original 2019 filing.