#sustainability

Google-backed UC San Diego researchers plan to build a low-carbon cloud platform from 2,000 retired Pixel phones. The design strips devices to motherboards, groups 25-50 phones into Kubernetes-managed clusters, and targets teaching, grading, and research workloads.

Researchers have built a thermodynamic computer that generates images from noise using orders of magnitude less energy than current generative AI models, offering a radically different approach to AI hardware.