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Building materials and Data centres and cloud

Data centres and cloud buys from Building materials; data centres and cloud depends on building materials.

Building materials (industry) and Data centres and cloud (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹0.6 per ₹100 · Data centres and cloud buys from Building materials

Data centres and cloud buys goods or services from Building materials; counted through every round of supply, ₹0.6 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹0.6 of every ₹100 of Data centres and cloud output, all rounds
  • ₹0.1 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 2 of 5 · Building materials → Data centres and cloud

1 of the enterprise types in Data centres and cloud depend on building materials.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Data-centre construction contractors: concrete and blocks (criticality 2 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.