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Data centres and cloud and Water and sanitation

Data centres and cloud buys from Water and sanitation; data centres and cloud depends on water and sanitation.

Data centres and cloud (industry) and Water and sanitation (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹0.2 per ₹100 · Data centres and cloud buys from Water and sanitation

Data centres and cloud buys goods or services from Water and sanitation; counted through every round of supply, ₹0.2 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹0.2 of every ₹100 of Data centres and cloud output, all rounds
  • ₹0.1 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 3 of 5 · Water and sanitation → Data centres and cloud

1 of the enterprise types in Data centres and cloud depend on water and sanitation.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Colocation and wholesale data-centre operators: cooling water and discharge (criticality 3 of 5)

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