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Your map shows only the single most popular site in each country, so has limited use. Here's a more direct look - a review of the top 1 million websites -
Study: Where the Web is Located & Ghost Servers Haunting the Internet | Superb Internet
The US hosts 42% of the worlds web servers, per this estimate. Electricity is cheap here, technical talent is plentiful, laws support pretty much doing what you want.
which conflicts with the data here:
Who Has the Most Web Servers? | Data Center Knowledge
which has Google owning perhaps 900,000 servers on its own, 4 years earlier. People/companies don't want to talk about where they keep their data that much. It's proprietary and competitively sensitive. But the bulk of the metrics out there have the US way way ahead in server capacity at the moment.
Further, Russia is trying to muscle the big providers into moving server capacity into Russia, without much success so far: Russia Asks Facebook, Google, Twitter to Comply With Law on Data Storage | News | The Moscow Times
Russia Speeds Up Law to Ban Most Foreign Web Services | News | The Moscow Times
Study: Where the Web is Located & Ghost Servers Haunting the Internet | Superb Internet
The US hosts 42% of the worlds web servers, per this estimate. Electricity is cheap here, technical talent is plentiful, laws support pretty much doing what you want.
which conflicts with the data here:
Who Has the Most Web Servers? | Data Center Knowledge
which has Google owning perhaps 900,000 servers on its own, 4 years earlier. People/companies don't want to talk about where they keep their data that much. It's proprietary and competitively sensitive. But the bulk of the metrics out there have the US way way ahead in server capacity at the moment.
Further, Russia is trying to muscle the big providers into moving server capacity into Russia, without much success so far: Russia Asks Facebook, Google, Twitter to Comply With Law on Data Storage | News | The Moscow Times
Russia Speeds Up Law to Ban Most Foreign Web Services | News | The Moscow Times