# Data centres and Software and IT services

Software and IT services depends on data centres.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/data-centres-and-software-and-it-services/

[Data centres](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_data_centres/) (energy) and [Software and IT services](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/software_it/) (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.