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Researchers are turning old Pixel phones into a data center – and they outperform some server hardware

2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud

theregister.com·

Researchers recycle old phones and cluster them into ‘computing platforms’ — says processors on modern smartphones deliver higher single-core performance than comparable multicore servers

tomshardware.com

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This Google-backed ‘phone cluster computing’ project is turning retired Pixels into low-cost Linux data centers — as UCSD researchers say a 2,000-phone cluster ...

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That dead phone in your drawer could power the next AI data center

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Uni researchers plan to build a low-carbon data center hivemind from 2,000 Pixel smartphones—with Google's help, no less

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Google Turns Thousands Of Pixel Phones Into A Low-Carbon Data Center

hothardware.com·

😺 42 states just subpoenaed OpenAI

theneurondaily.com·

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Recycling: Alte Smartphones werden zu Server-Clustern für Studierende

Google começou a usar celulares antigos para criar data centers do Gemini

canaltech.com.br·

Forscher bauen aus alten Handys erstaunlich leistungsstarke Server

Le vieux Pixel de votre tiroir vaut peut-être mieux qu'un serveur

Convierten un montón de móviles abandonados en un mini centro de datos

informacion.es·

Pixel-Smartphones als Server: Google unterstützt Second-Life-Projekt

stadt-bremerhaven.de·