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Data centres and Electronic specialty gases

Their prices have moved together.

Data centres (energy) and Electronic specialty gases (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: chip demand driver

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

AI data centres drive demand for advanced chips, and with it the gases used to make them. The data-centre proxy is a commercial power price, so it measures energy cost rather than chip demand, and monthly moves correlate at just 0.11.

  • 0.11 monthly change correlation
  • 0.24 12-month change correlation
  • 2.41 fitted elasticity

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