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As of January 2022, around 2,751 data centers were in the United States, with a further 484 data centers located in Germany. The United Kingdom ranked third among countries in terms of the number of data centers with 458, while China recorded 447.
What is a data center?
A data center is a network of computing and storage resources that enables the delivery of shared software applications and data. These centers can house large amounts of critical and important data, and therefore are vital to the daily functions of companies and consumers alike. As a result, whether it is a cloud, colocation, or managed service, data center real estate will have increasing importance worldwide.
Hyperscale data centers
In the past, data centers were highly controlled physical infrastructures, but the cloud has since changed that model. A cloud data service is a remote version of a data center – located somewhere away from a company's physical premises. Cloud IT infrastructure spending has grown and is forecast to rise further in the coming years. The evolution of technology, along with the rapid growth in demand for data across the globe, is largely driven by the leading hyperscale data center providers.
Mergers and acquisitions in the gaming industry are often worth billions and create lots of buzz. In January 2022, the two biggest gaming acquisitions so far happened within a week of each other - on January 10, Take-Two Interactive announced it's purchase of social gaming company Zynga, signaling a stronger focus on mobile gaming. January 18, 2022, saw the surprise notice of Microsoft purchasing Activision Blizzard for 68.7 billion U.S. dollars.
Up unil then, Tencent's June 2016 purchase of Finnish gaming publisher Supercell ranked first as the biggest video game industry acquisition with a deal size of 8.6 billion U.S. dollars. Supercell is a mobile game company and the developer and publisher of the top-grossing mobile title Clash of Clans. Microsoft also made news in September 2020 when announcing that the tech giant had acquired video game holding company ZeniMax for 7.5 billion U.S. dollars. This deal subsequently made Microsoft the owner of ZeniMax-owned id Software, Arkane Studios, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, as well as publisher Bethesda Softworks with its Bethesda Game Studios, and ZeniMax Online Studios.
In 2021, the Turkish-based ultrafast delivery company Getir recorded about 23.4 million downloads of its app in the countries where it operates. That is almost six times the number of downloads of the U.S.-based Gopuff. German quick commerce startups Gorillas and Flink recorded some 3.7 million and 2.6 million downloads that year.
'Spongebob Squarepants' was the most in-demand TV show in the United States, with an expression approximately 68 times higher than the average title from January 15 to 21, 2022. 'Cobra Kai' and 'Saturday Night Live' ranked second and third, with a difference from the average market of around 65 and 55 times, respectively.
The price of one euro reached approximately 83.49 Russian rubles on average in December 2021, marking a increase compared to the previous month. To compare, the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar to the Russian ruble grew to 74.65 Russian rubles.
Since the 1780s, over 25,000 United States law enforcement officers have died while on active duty, or due to injuries and illnesses obtained while on duty. Gunfire is responsible for over half of all total law enforcement deaths recorded, particularly before the 1930s. From this point on, the total share of gunfire deaths has decreased significantly, mostly due to the increase in vehicle or health related deaths, although gunfire has remained the most common individual cause of death in almost every year.
Gunfire deaths
These deaths rose steadily after the Civil War, and peaked at over 200 annual deaths during the 1920s, due to the increase in criminal activity during prohibition. Because of this, the National Firearms Act of 1934 was introduced in an attempt to reduce gun-related crime, by requiring the registration of any transfer of ownership and imposing a tax on gun manufacturers and distributors. After Prohibition's end and the introduction of these measures, annual law enforcement deaths from gunfire have been well below 100 in almost every year, except for a brief spike in the early 1970s, during the crime wave that began in the 1960s and the beginning of the "War on Drugs". Overall, gunfire deaths of law enforcement have fallen since the 1970s, reaching a low of just 34 deaths in 2013. In contrast, the total number of people killed by police shootings has consistently been above one thousand for most of the past decade.
Increase in health-related deaths
The majority of non-gunfire deaths are a result of vehicle-related accidents, and the number of crashes and accidents rose throughout the 20th century in line with the increase in car ownership. However, the number of deaths from heart attacks and job-related illness has also risen over time, due to the aging of the population and increasingly unhealthy lifestyle trends across the country. In recent decades, additional health issues have emerged that have had a disproportionate impact on law enforcement. In 2001, 72 officers died as a result of the September 11th terrorist attacks, and an additional 333 law enforcement deaths have been attributed to the adverse health effects (primarily respiratory illnesses) sustained by first responders.
In 2020 and 2021, over 600 COVID-19 deaths were recorded among law enforcement officers who were thought to have contracted the virus while on duty. There is a geographical correlation between law enforcement deaths from COVID-19 and vaccination rates per state, and law enforcement officers are considered frontline or essential workers who are required to continue in their roles despite the increased risk of exposure. However, the topic of mandatory vaccination for police officers has also become a contentious issue, with many departments or unions pushing back against compulsory vaccination, while lawmakers in areas such as Florida have offered financial incentives for unvaccinated officers who relocate to their state. As these figures are preliminary, it is likely that the number of law enforcement deaths attributed to COVID-19 will increase further in the coming year.
Since overtaking iOS in 2013 to become Europe’s most popular mobile operating system, Android has managed to increase its share of the market in each of the following years. As of 2021, Android was the operating system for 67.21 percent of European mobile phones.
OS market share reflects diversity of android devices
The Android operating system has a distinct advantage in terms of gaining market share, purely based on the number of manufacturers creating devices that run on Android. iOS, on the other hand, is only used by Apple devices. Looking at the market share held by individual devices gives a clearer impression of the state of play between the major manufacturers. In the second quarter of 2018, the combined European market share of Apple devices stood at 32 percent, while the Android's market share was 67 percent.
Market shares in the United Kingdom
The market share iOS holds in the United Kingdom is higher than at the European level, sitting at 54.45 percent. Apple devices were the two most popular devices sold in the United Kingdom during April 2021, with the iPhone 12 Pro and the iPhone 12 Pro Max making up a combined 26 percent of smartphones sold during that month.
In 2021, Denmark was the EU country with the highest corruption perception index score, implying that it is the least corrupt country in the European Union. The other Nordic countries in the EU, Finland and Sweden, also have high scores and are second and third in this statistic respectively. Bulgaria and Hungary have the lowest index score of all EU countries with a score of 42 and 43 respectively. The index itself is a composite indicator that includes data on the perception of corruption in areas such as bribery of public officials, kickbacks in public procurement, embezzlement of state funds, and effectiveness of governments' anti-corruption efforts. The highest possible score in perception of corruption is 0, whereas a score of 100 indicates that no corruption is perceived in the respective country.
Over 30 percent of Russians were much or rather concerned over sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russia as of December 2021. The share of respondents who were absolutely not worried about political and economic restrictions on their country has more than doubled since April 2014.
In December 2021, the monthly sales revenue of the gastronomy sector in China ranged at 484 billion yuan, displaying a growth rate of -2.2 percent compared to the same month of the previous year. Sales in December 2021 were around 1.0 percent higher than in December 2019 before the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
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