The regional government of Aragon implemented a legal framework known as PIRA, which designates data center projects as being of public interest, thereby reducing permitting times, providing tax exemp...

Electricity prices in Spain are, on average, 20% to 30% lower than in the rest of the European Union.

Companies developing data centers in Aragon, Spain are promoting its PIRA legal framework as a model for the European Union to adopt in other regions to accelerate infrastructure build-out.

The European Union is expected to propose the Cloud Development and AI Act in the first quarter of this year, with a goal of tripling the continent's data center capacity within five to seven years.