# Data centres and Electronic specialty gases

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/data-centres-and-electronic-specialty-gases/

[Data centres](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_data_centres/) (energy) and [Electronic specialty gases](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/electronic_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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