There are also rumblings of solid-state storage being deployed as a resource-saving measure," according to the report.
A final example was prefabricated modular (PFM) data centers, which in themselves aren't more efficient but enable companies to achieve efficiencies by avoiding "infrastructure overcapacity.Greenpeace has been a vocal critic of what it calls "data farms" and in April released a report titled "How Clean Is Your Cloud?" It graded the clouds of major companies, heavily criticized Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, and gave the iCloud owner a D in energy efficiency and an F in infrastructure siting. (Apple, which nearly always ignores the press, responded that it was building the "greenest data center ever built.
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