[rchakra3]

They probably mean that a large percentage of internet services are hosted on US-based servers. As a regular AWS/Azure customer, the regions in which I tend to see provisioning issues makes this seem right, though I'd love to see some numbers.

[Retric]

For various reasons the internet maps much closer to GDP than Population. But, largely it’s a case of smaller economies driving less advertising dollars which supports fewer websites. So it’s also weighted more to consumer spending than raw GDP.