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Data centres and Media and entertainment

Media and entertainment depends on data centres.

Data centres (energy) and Media and entertainment (industry): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Data centres → Media and entertainment

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

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

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Creative software and game-engine vendors: cloud services (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Streaming video and audio platforms: storage and streaming (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Advertising platforms and media agencies: ad serving and auctions (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Audience measurement and rights societies: data processing (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Game developers and publishers: game servers (criticality 3 of 5)
  • VFX, animation and post-production studios: render compute (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Content delivery networks and media cloud: edge servers (criticality 3 of 5)

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