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Data centres and Education and research

Education and research depends on data centres.

Data centres (energy) and Education and research (industry): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Data centres → Education and research

5 of the enterprise types in Education and research depend on data centres; for the most dependent, it rates 4 out of 5 on criticality.

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

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Scholarly publishers and research databases: online journals (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Public research laboratories and large facilities: supercomputers (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Universities and colleges: research computing (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Education technology and campus software vendors: hosting (criticality 2 of 5)
  • Corporate R&D centres and contract research organisations: AI and simulation compute (criticality 2 of 5)

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