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Data centres and cloud and Real estate

Data centres and cloud buys from Real estate; data centres and cloud depends on real estate.

Data centres and cloud (industry) and Real estate (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹0.7 per ₹100 · Data centres and cloud buys from Real estate

Data centres and cloud buys goods or services from Real estate; counted through every round of supply, ₹0.7 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹0.7 of every ₹100 of Data centres and cloud output, all rounds
  • ₹0.5 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Real estate → Data centres and cloud

2 of the enterprise types in Data centres and cloud depend on real estate.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Infrastructure investors and data-centre developers: industrial land and leasing (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Colocation and wholesale data-centre operators: land and buildings (criticality 3 of 5)

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