# Data centres and Wholesale and retail trade

Wholesale and retail trade depends on data centres.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/data-centres-and-wholesale-and-retail-trade/

[Data centres](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_data_centres/) (energy) and [Wholesale and retail trade](https://www.materialinsights.org/industries/wholesale_retail/) (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.