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Data centres and cloud and Machinery and equipment

Data centres and cloud buys from Machinery and equipment; data centres and cloud depends on machinery and equipment.

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

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹0.3 per ₹100 · Data centres and cloud buys from Machinery and equipment

Data centres and cloud buys goods or services from Machinery and equipment; counted through every round of supply, ₹0.3 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹0.3 of every ₹100 of Data centres and cloud output, all rounds
  • ₹0.1 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Machinery and equipment → Data centres and cloud

1 of the enterprise types in Data centres and cloud depend on machinery and equipment.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Electrical and cooling equipment makers: chillers, pumps and generators (criticality 4 of 5)

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