A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

Researchers at UC San Diego, with Google support, are building a low-carbon computing platform by repurposing retired Pixel smartphones into a datacenter cluster. The project aims to reduce embodied carbon by reusing smartphone motherboards, which account for about 50% of a phone's carbon footprint. The cluster will use containerized applications managed by Kubernetes and is planned to support university computer science classes.

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researchers at the University of California San Diego are building a pathway for the second life of phones through the exploration of “phone cluster computing.” This is a process whereby the motherboards of retired smartphones are extracted, collected into clusters, and redeployed as a general-purpose computing platform.
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