IT has not enough buyers for products?

[CaddyShack]

Pardon me if I'm wrong, but I didn't realise that even though IT Clusters are Offices, they apparently make products to sell to commercial zones...some of my IT Clusters have been complaining that I need to zone more commercial bc there's not enough buyers for products, and I do zone more of all kinds of specialisations, but I still see no changes w/ both IT demands and commercial needs.

Is there a specific specialisation of commercial the IT needs, or can I continue zoning commercial of any kind to hopefully, eventually satisfy it? My city is constantly fluctuating between 189k-190k.

[kristofburger]

Dezoning excess IT cluster is a good option too because they don't employ much people.

[grapplehoeker]

Originally posted by kristofburger:

Dezoning excess IT cluster is a good option too because they don't employ much people.

Yes, I agree.
@OP you're looking at it backwards. You shouldn't be looking to satisfy IT or industry, but commercial instead.
Commercial is the keystone for everything else.
It determines the amount of industry required to sustain/supply it and additionally, if Green cities is used, then it dictates the amount of IT clusters in the same way.
So, instead of zoning IT clusters and then considering how much commercial that requires, rather look to the amount of commercial and then consider how much IT clusters and generic industry is necessary to supply it to prevent it from importing consumer goods.
It won't be much, or ideally shouldn't be much. Always keep a firm focus on the amount of commercial and limit it in such a way so as to limit the amount of generic and IT clusters in this case.

[ancienthighway]

1 IT Cluster to 4 Commercial.

It doesn't take a lot of IT Clusters to supply commercial zones. A 1:4 ratio of IT to commercial works well. This is based on a test city of 512 commercial squares (32 4x4 squares) and 128 IT cluster squares (8 4x4 squares). The commercial is all level 3 low density. With this set up, most of the time no commercial were showing as importing goods. The short cycles where they were importing, then back to no imports. Perhaps production cycle?