This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing infrastructure for hosting or data processing services. These establishments may provide specialized hosting activities, such as web hosting, streaming services or application hosting, provide application service provisioning, or may provide general time-share mainframe facilities to clients. Data processing establishments provide complete processing and specialized reports from data supplied by clients or provide automated data processing and data entry services.

Areas include: application hosting, application service providers (ASP), automated data processing services, computer input preparation services, computer time leasing, computer time rental, computer time sharing services, data capture imaging services, data entry services, data processing computer services, data processing services (except payroll services, financial transaction processing), disk and diskette conversion services, disk and diskette recertification service, electronic data processing services, media streaming services, microfiche recording and imaging services, optical scanning services, and web hosting.