Claims: 2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud
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- title: 2,000 retired Google Pixel phones get a second life as a private cloud Source
- url: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/06/18/2000-retired-google-pixel-phones-get-a-second-life-as-a-private-cloud/5258035 Source
- summary: Once you're done with your smartphone, it either ends up in a drawer, on the growing second-hand market, or perhaps in a recycle bin. However, it's a computer and, when combined with others like it, can offer real processing power. Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, working in collaboration with Google, plan to deploy a rather unusual compute cluster built not from conventional servers, but using 2,000 retired phones. The goal is to demonstrate how these devices migh… Source
- published: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:39:28 +0200 Source