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 exemptions, and enabling forced land expropriations.

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.