Data centres and Wholesale and retail trade

Wholesale and retail trade depends on data centres.

Data centres (energy) and Wholesale and retail trade (industry): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Data centres → Wholesale and retail trade

2 of the enterprise types in Wholesale and retail trade depend on data centres; for the most dependent, it rates 4 out of 5 on criticality.

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

Enterprise types that depend on it:

• Payment networks and merchant acquirers: switching and settlement systems (criticality 4 of 5)
• Retail technology vendors (POS, ERP, store systems): cloud hosting (criticality 3 of 5)

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