Google and UC San Diego repurpose old smartphones as low-carbon cloud servers
Google and UC San Diego researchers are developing "phone cluster computing" — a method to repurpose retired smartphones by removing their motherboards and redeploying them as low-carbon computing nodes in data centers. Instead of treating old phones as e-waste, the initiative aims to harness their still-useful processing power for cloud computing, reducing environmental impact. UC San Diego plans to launch a data center built from these repurposed phone components.
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That old phone sitting in your drawer may have more life left in it than you think.
You may look at it and see a dead battery, an outdated camera or a screen that no longer feels worth using. Google and researchers at the University of California San Diego see something else: a tiny computer that may still have useful processing power.
Instead of treating retired smartphones as electronic waste, researchers remove the motherboard and redeploy it as part of a low-carbon computing system.
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