Europe

27 EU member states, benchmarked on data center readiness and regulatory friction.

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450M

Population

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Data Center Readiness

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Where can you build the next data center? Ranking jurisdictions on power availability, permitting speed, tax incentives, and infrastructure readiness.

Why Europe

Europe’s Productivity Engine

The Fragmentation Problem

Europe is not one market. It is 27 regulatory regimes layered over a single currency, a single rulebook and a single grid. For a hyperscaler, an AI lab or an industrial investor, that fragmentation is the cost of doing business: months of additional permitting, multiple grid operators, inconsistent transposition of EU directives.

The Red Tape Index makes that fragmentation visible. One comparable measure of regulatory friction across all 27 EU member states.

27: Countries benchmarked
450M: Citizens covered

Why Data Center Readiness, Why Now

Europe is racing to host the next generation of AI infrastructure. Power availability, grid interconnection speed, water supply and community license to operate are no longer abstract policy questions. They decide where multi-billion-euro campuses get built and where they do not.

RTI Europe ranks all 27 EU member states on the operating environment for hyperscale builds. Built with Labrynth, a global leader in agentic AI, and our European partner network to turn fragmented public, regulatory and grid data into one comparable score.

“Europe does not have a capability problem. It has a coordination problem, and RTI is the measurement layer that finally makes it visible.”

The RTI Engine

How the index is built

RTI Europe analyses three layers of intelligence to map where friction occurs across the 27-country market and what must change.

Layer 01

Pan-European Datasets

Eurostat, ENTSO-E, ACER and national regulators normalized across all 27 EU member states for comparable measurement.

Layer 02

National & Regional Data

Operational data shared directly by national permitting bodies, grid operators and regional development agencies.

Layer 03

Reputable Private Data Sources

Vetted industry data on energy markets, grid interconnection queues and announced campus investments to supplement public sources.

Working with European partners

RTI is a collaborative platform. Ministries, regulators, grid operators and industry associations provide operational data. RTI transforms it into real-time measurement, surfacing friction points and tracking whether reforms are working. You can't improve what you can't measure. RTI finally makes measurement possible across all 27 EU member states.