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Data centres and cloud and Water

Data centres and cloud depends on water.

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

How they are linked

1. Industry input

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

1 of the enterprise types in Data centres and cloud depend on water; for the most dependent, it rates 3 out of 5 on criticality.

  • 1 enterprise types depend on it
  • 3 of 5 highest criticality

Enterprise types that depend on it:

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

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