# Data centres and cloud and Water

Data centres and cloud depends on water.

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

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