# Data centres and cloud and Silicon

Data centres and cloud depends on silicon.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/data-centres-and-cloud-and-silicon/

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