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There are a ton of Internet facing servers, vast majority of cloud instances, and every cloud provider except Microsoft (and their in house "windows" for azure hosting is somehow different, though they aren't public about it).
In terms of on premise servers, I'd even say the HPC groups may outnumber internal windows servers. While relatively fewer instances, they all represent racks and racks of servers, and that market is 100% Linux.
I know a couple of retailers and at least two game studios are keeping at scale windows a thing, but Linux mostly dominates my experience of large scale deployment in on premise scale out.
It just seems like Linux is just so likely for scenarios that also have lots of horizontal scaling, it is hard to imagine that despite that windows still being a majority share of the market when all is said and done, when it's usually deployed in smaller quantities in any given place.