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Data centres and cloud and Electrical equipment

Data centres and cloud buys from Electrical equipment; data centres and cloud depends on electrical equipment.

Data centres and cloud (industry) and Electrical equipment (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹0.5 per ₹100 · Data centres and cloud buys from Electrical equipment

Data centres and cloud buys goods or services from Electrical equipment; counted through every round of supply, ₹0.5 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹0.5 of every ₹100 of Data centres and cloud output, all rounds
  • ₹0.2 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 5 of 5 · Electrical equipment → Data centres and cloud

3 of the enterprise types in Data centres and cloud depend on electrical equipment.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Utilities and clean-power developers: transformers and switchgear (criticality 5 of 5)
  • Electrical and cooling equipment makers: transformers, switchgear and UPS (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Colocation and wholesale data-centre operators: maintenance of power systems (criticality 3 of 5)

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