Every pillar is an EU-wide percentile (0–100, higher = better for siting) computed across all EU-27 + EFTA NUTS-3 regions from the latest available period. The mandate score is the weight-normalized blend of the selected pillars. Regions missing a weighted pillar are scored at the EU-median assumption (50) for that pillar and flagged — missing data is never silently dropped or renormalized. Regions with data for less than 60% of the requested weight are excluded.
- Economic base — GDP per capita, PPS-adjusted (Eurostat nama_10r_3gdp)
- Growth momentum — Momentum Index: GDP CAGR 5/10y, acceleration, employment & population trend
- Demographic outlook — Projected population change to 2040, EUROPOP2019 baseline (Eurostat proj_19rp3)
- Labour market — Employment rate 20–64 (Eurostat lfst_r_lfe2emprt)
- Cost advantage — Inverse of net disposable household income per capita — labour-cost proxy (Eurostat nama_10r_2hhinc)
- Talent & skills — Talent Index: tertiary attainment 25–34, lifelong learning, HRST, scientists & engineers
- Connectivity — Connectivity Index: transit density, airport access, market-access gravity
- Freight intensity — Road freight loaded per 1,000 inhabitants (Eurostat road_go_na_rl3g)
- Industrial base — Manufacturing share of gross value added (Eurostat nama_10r_3gva)
- Digital readiness — Households with internet access (Eurostat isoc_r_iacc_h)
- Governance — World Bank WGI: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, corruption control, political stability (country-level)
- Energy cost — Inverse of industrial electricity price, 2–20 GWh band excl. taxes (Eurostat nrg_pc_205, country-level)
- Resilience — Resilience Index: GDP/labour stability, diversification (HHI), demographics
- Quality of life — QoL composite: income, jobs, education, health, safety, environment, transit
- Air quality — Clean-Air composite: PM2.5, PM10, NO2 annual means (EEA)
Sources: Eurostat dissemination API, EEA air quality, OurAirports, MobilityData GTFS, GISCO. Nightly refresh with upstream freshness polling — see data status. This is first-pass macro screening: rents, land availability, zoning, incentives and site-level grid capacity are outside public pan-EU data and belong to phase-2 diligence.