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Data centres and cloud and Silicon

Data centres and cloud depends on silicon.

Data centres and cloud (industry) and Silicon (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 5 of 5 · Silicon → Data centres and cloud

2 of the enterprise types in Data centres and cloud depend on silicon; for the most dependent, it rates 5 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 2 enterprise types depend on it
  • 5 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Utilities and clean-power developers: solar panels (criticality 5 of 5)
  • AI accelerator and server-chip makers: chips (criticality 5 of 5)

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