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Data centres and Natural gas

Their prices have moved together.

Data centres (energy) and Natural gas (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: fuel cost

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Gas plants supply much of the power data centres draw and are often built for them. Yearly moves correlate at 0.37 with European gas, weak because US commercial tariffs follow American gas with regulatory delay.

  • -0.05 monthly change correlation
  • 0.37 12-month change correlation
  • 0.09 fitted elasticity

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