Dossier
Pixel smartphones
Coverage of Pixel smartphones in the Nexus archive.
- Google turns old phones into cloud servers
Google and researchers at the University of California San Diego are repurposing retired smartphones into cloud servers by using their motherboards in a low-carbon computing system. The project, called phone cluster computing, aims to launch a data center with 2,000 Pixel smartphones in 2026 to provide low-cost cloud computing while reducing reliance on new hardware.