# Data centres and Media and entertainment

Media and entertainment depends on data centres.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/data-centres-and-media-and-entertainment/

[Data centres](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_data_centres/) (energy) and [Media and entertainment](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/media_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.