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Data centres and Software and IT services

Software and IT services depends on data centres.

Data centres (energy) and Software and IT services (industry): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Data centres → Software and IT services

6 of the enterprise types in Software and IT services depend on data centres; for the most dependent, it rates 4 out of 5 on criticality.

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

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Hyperscale cloud providers: server power (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Operating system, database and developer-platform vendors: build and hosting infrastructure (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Open-source foundations and maintainer communities: package hosting (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Cybersecurity vendors: threat-analysis cloud (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Enterprise application and SaaS vendors: hosting (criticality 3 of 5)
  • Consumer and vertical software developers: backends (criticality 2 of 5)

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