According to a new industry survey, the United States remains the most popular country for data center hosting.

The new data from Cushman & Wakefield and Hurleypalmerflatt shows that while the United Kingdom and Germany hold the next two spots, Nordic countries are on the rise. Sweden and Finland take the eighth and ninth slots, respectively. Countries in the far northern hemisphere are attractive thanks to their naturally cool environments and access to substantial amounts of renewable energy and water.

That is in line with the recent efforts of some big players (yes, Google and Facebook), which have been building data centers like crazy as of late in Finland and Sweden, respectively. But the companies are also working on domestic data centers too, including one in western Georgia that keeps cool with toilet water and showers, and another in Oregon.

"What we are seeing, certainly in the data storage market, is the rise of the Nordics, which may in the future dilute the market share from the traditional centers in Europe," said Keith Inglis, partner in the EMEA Data Centre Advisory Group at Cushman & Wakefield, in a statement.

Sadly, Sealand, as a failed data haven, wasn’t an option on the survey.