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Construction and infrastructure and Data centres and cloud

Data centres and cloud buys from Construction and infrastructure; data centres and cloud depends on construction and infrastructure.

Construction and infrastructure (industry) and Data centres and cloud (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹0.8 per ₹100 · Data centres and cloud buys from Construction and infrastructure

Data centres and cloud buys goods or services from Construction and infrastructure; counted through every round of supply, ₹0.8 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹0.8 of every ₹100 of Data centres and cloud output, all rounds
  • ₹0.3 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 5 of 5 · Construction and infrastructure → Data centres and cloud

3 of the enterprise types in Data centres and cloud depend on construction and infrastructure.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Utilities and clean-power developers: substations and lines (criticality 5 of 5)
  • Hyperscale cloud providers: self-built campuses (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Data-centre construction contractors: civil and MEP works (criticality 2 of 5)

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