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Data centres and Energy-intensive industry

Their prices have moved together.

Data centres (energy) and Energy-intensive industry (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: same utility prices

Cost and price · Strong · Both ways

Commercial and industrial tariffs are set by the same utilities from the same generation costs. Monthly moves correlate at 0.83, the strongest link here, showing a shared fuel and network cost base rather than any trade between the two users.

  • 0.83 monthly change correlation
  • 0.63 12-month change correlation
  • 1.18 fitted elasticity

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