# 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.

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[Data centres and cloud](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/data_centres/) (industry) and [Water and sanitation](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/water_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.