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Software and IT services and Water

Software and IT services depends on water.

Software and IT services (industry) and Water (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Industry input

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

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

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

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Hyperscale cloud providers: data-centre cooling (criticality 4 of 5)

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