Google looks to electronic waste as cost-effective AI server solution

Every year, billions of phones are discarded globally, many of them with perfectly usable processors. At the same time, the tech industry is preparing to spend billions on new AI computing hardware, at high environmental costs. Google, in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, San Diego, is developing a way to bridge those two realities by building a server from recovered phone processors, tackling a waste problem while providing low-carbon computing.

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Category: Computing, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Processing, Mobile Phones, Cell+Phone, Chips