Google Research·· 2026-06-13
A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
AI summary
With Google's support, UC San Diego plans a data centre using motherboards from 2,000 retired Pixel phones to provide low-cost, low-carbon cloud computing for hundreds of students and faculty. SPEC benchmarks show 25–50 phones roughly equal one modern server. Phones form Kubernetes-managed clusters of 25–50 devices, with launch expected in autumn 2026.
Selection record
Threshold 60Official, first-handFirst 41Second 42
Not admittedSum of both 83 < twice the threshold 120
- Source tier
- Official, first-hand; this tier's threshold is 60
- Pre-filter
- passed：退役手机集群用于AI/云计算平台
A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.
Source: Google Research · research.google