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A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones


June 12, 2026 Jennifer Switzer, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, and David Patterson, Fellow, Google With support from Google, Researchers at the University of California San Diego are building a useful second-life for consumer smartphones. The carbon footprint of computing is a key sustainability challenge.

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