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Data centres and Data centres and cloud

Data centres and cloud depends on data centres.

Data centres (energy) and Data centres and cloud (industry): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

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

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

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

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • AI accelerator and server-chip makers: accelerators set the power density of the hall (criticality 5 of 5)
  • Hyperscale cloud providers: fleet electricity (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Colocation and wholesale data-centre operators: the facilities themselves (criticality 3 of 5)

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