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Researchers recycle old phones and cluster them into 'computing platforms'
This could potentially hit two birds with one stone — reduce e-waste and reduce data center component demand.
Google Research frames the project around "embodied carbon," the emissions tied to manufacturing devices in the first place.
A team from UC San Diego and Google created a smartphone-based compute cluster, showing how discarded devices could be repurposed instead of becoming e-waste.
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