# Building materials and Data centres and cloud

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

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/building-materials-and-data-centres-and-cloud/

[Building materials](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/building_materials/) (industry) and [Data centres and cloud](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/data_centres/) (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.