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by himinlomax 1834 days ago
I'm pretty sure any one of Amazon, Google or Facebook has more Linux servers than there are Windows server in the world.
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Where are the numbers if you are so sure?
Google alone had 2.5 million servers in 2016 as per estimate [1], and 0.9 million in 2011 in [2].

So a reasonable guess for today seems > 5 million.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_data_centers

[2] https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/08/01/repo...

I am missing the numbers for the rest of the world.