# Data centres and cloud and Electrical equipment

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

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[Data centres and cloud](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/data_centres/) (industry) and [Electrical equipment](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/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.